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Texas Property Tax Directory. Use the directory below to find your local county’s Truth in Taxation website and better understand your property tax rate. If you have questions about your property taxes, please contact your county's Tax Assessor-Collector.
Information for homeowners and small businesses. In Texas, local governments collect property tax and set rates. The Comptroller's office provides resources for taxpayers, appraisers and others.
Tax assessors prepare and mail bills to property owners on or around Oct. 1. Learn what's on a Texas property tax bill, including penalties and interest.
Most property owners pay their property taxes before the year's end so they can deduct the payments from their federal income taxes. If you appeal your value to district court, binding arbitration or the State Office of Administrative Hearings, you must pay your taxes - usually the amount that is not in dispute - before the delinquency date.
Under Senate Bill 2 and Senate Bill 3, $18 billion of Texas' historic budget surplus will be allocated toward driving down school district property tax rates, increasing homestead exemptions for Texas homeowners, and increasing Franchise Tax exemptions and appraisal caps for small businesses.
In 2019, the Texas Legislature passed legislation to help Texans better understand tax rates in their home county. Access timely information about how local tax rate decisions affect your tax bill on your county’s Truth in Taxation website.
Texas law provides a variety of property tax exemptions for qualifying property owners. Local taxing units offer partial and total exemptions from a qualifying property's appraised value. A partial exemption removes a percentage or a fixed dollar amount of a property’s value from taxation.
Texas has no state property tax. Local governments set tax rates and collect property taxes to provide many local services including schools, streets, roads, police and fire protection. Texas law requires property values used in determining taxes to be equal and uniform.
Age 65 or older and disabled exemptions: Individuals age 65 or older or disabled residence homestead owners qualify for a $10,000 residence homestead exemption for school district taxes, in addition to the $40,000 exemption for all homeowners.
TAX TRANSPARENCY. VISIT TEXAS.GOV/PROPERTYTAXES TO FIND A LINK TO YOUR LOCAL PROPERTY TAX DATABASE ON WHICH YOU CAN EASILY ACCESS INFORMATION REGARDING YOUR PROPERTY TAXES, INCLUDING INFORMATION REGARDING THE AMOUNT OF TAXES THAT EACH ENTITY THAT TAXES YOUR PROPERTY WILL IMPOSE IF THE ENTITY ADOPTS ITS PROPOSED TAX RATE.