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State tax systems are usually looked at as a three-legged stool — property taxes, sales taxes and personal income tax. In Texas, our “stool” only has two legs.
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With a historic state budget surplus of $32 billion, lawmakers have earmarked $15 billion to ease property tax bills.
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Property taxes are due Tuesday at 11:59 p.m., come hell or frozen water.
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Texans pay some of the highest property taxes in the country, and listeners have a lot of thoughts about how that could be addressed. One unconventional idea we’ve heard: offsetting homeowners’ tax bills with revenue from legal weed. So, could that actually work?
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This legislative session, public radio stations across Texas want to answer your wonkiest, weirdest and wildest questions about property taxes in the state. What questions do you have? We want to find the answers for you.
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The preliminary budgets by House and Senate call for $130.1 billion in state spending over two years, even though tens of billions more are available to them. The bills do not bust state or constitutional spending limits.
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Addressing the freshman class, Phelan asked lawmakers to "not confuse this body with the one in Washington, D.C."
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And Texas will have $188.2 billion in general revenue for the 2024-2025 fiscal year, a 26% increase from the last biennium.
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With only a few days before the start of the next legislative session, politics reporters Niki Griswold and James Barragán preview what’s on the agenda for state lawmakers.
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Here's how those assets got there, and how to reclaim your own money.
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The dueling approaches are coming into focus as lawmakers prepare to return to Austin for the session which begins Jan. 10.
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Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick on Wednesday unveiled his priorities for the 2023 legislative session, which include reducing property taxes, tackling improvements for the state’s power grid and going after certain elected officials.