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For just about every homeowner in Texas, it is a huge, aggravating, infuriating problem.We’re talking about your property taxes, which just keep soaring higher and higher.In Austin, state lawmakers have been hammering out two big property tax reduction bills aimed at using $12.3 billion dollars...

A new exemption is available to commercial, residential, and personal property used for production that suffered damage during a statewide Disaster Declaration. You may be eligible for this exemption if the cost of damages is at least 15% of the total of your improvement value....

Harris County property owners have filed more protests disputing the taxable value of their homes and commercial properties this year than at any point in nearly 20 years.Protests were recorded for more than 412,000 accounts through early August, 11 percent more than in all of...

This is the time of year the Harris County Appraisal District sends out appraisal notices to property owners. Those valuations have been on the rise in recent years, prompting Harris County Tax Assessor-Collector Mike Sullivan to offer a series of property tax workshops to explain how...

The Texas Public Policy Foundation recently released a study about the federal government’s proposed Clean Power Plan, which aims to regulate carbon emissions from power plants. Their assessment: doom and gloom, lost jobs, and rolling blackouts throughout the state. But others say the plan is...

HOUSTON (KTRK) -- Get ready for property tax sticker shock. Hundreds of thousands of Harris County homeowners are getting their appraisals in the mail soon, and most of them will see increases. The first assessments are in the mail and, for some homeowners, online. Colby Hodges bought...

As the calendar is set to a New Year, your local county appraisal district is starting to gear up to set your new appraised value for the New Year as well. It may appear currently the county is primarily concerned with tax collection until the...

As HISD considers increasing the tax base for 2013, following massive deficits in the school budgets, we should not only look at the possibility and importance of properly funding our schools but also where the issues truly stem from. As part of a finance restructuring,...

by: David PitmanProperty values in Texas are up slightly. The State Comptroller's office says the total value of all land and buildings in Texas increased by a little more than 1 percent in 2011, to reach $1.67 trillion. Property values also rose in Harris County...