How would lawmakers' plan to hike sales taxes and drop property taxes affect Texans?
Texas lawmakers are expected to debate a plan this week that would raise the taxes consumers pay when they go shopping in order to...
Gov. Greg Abbott, legislative leaders assert confidence as deadline nears to cut property taxes
Showing their usual united front, the state’s “Big Three” political leaders on Friday tried to remake their case for why the Texas Legislature should...
Change in tax bill would let many cities and counties raise property tax levies...
After revisions made in the Texas House, more than a thousand smaller taxing units may not have to abide by a key provision in...
Texas House approves property tax reform bill, setting up negotiations with the Senate
The Texas House gave preliminary approval to a priority property tax reform package Tuesday, teeing the chamber up for negotiations with the Senate, and...
Analysis: The Texas House is handcuffing property tax relief to education reforms
Texas isn’t going to get any action on property taxes without reforms to school finance, if the latest House maneuver is the barometer.
The House...
House committee passes Senate property tax bill — after altering it to look more...
Blasting the Senate for taking a symbolic approach on school district taxes, a panel of House lawmakers heavily altered then approved the upper chamber’s...
A Texas sales tax increase would hit poor people the hardest
Texas’ Republican leadership wants to raise the taxes that consumers pay when they go shopping in order to lower the taxes that homeowners and...
Senate's property tax reform plan gets Senate vote after 2 months of no movement
Pictured: Sen. Kel Seliger holding the Senate Rules book during debate on SB 2
After two months of being stalled following passage from the newly-created...
Dan Patrick threatens to use "nuclear option" to skirt Senate tradition and bring property...
Faced with a stalemate on his priority property tax proposal, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick said Friday that if no deal materializes over the weekend,...
Property Tax Reform Proposals Stall — For Now — As Top Texas Lawmakers Scramble...
Thursday was scheduled to be property tax day in the Texas House. Then it was rumored to be property tax day in the Texas...
