Texas lawmakers in Austin again have a multi-billion dollar surplus. Again, some state leaders want to send money back to property owners and pay down local taxes by expanding the homestead exemption ...

SB 4 promises to provide more tax relief for homeowners and cash payments to local schools to replace a chunk of the revenue stream districts would lose.

The marquee proposal would increase the amount of a home’s value exemption from school taxes to $140,000 from $100,000.

A Texas Senate bill to raise the homestead exemption and provide relief to the state's property taxpayers quickly passed out ...

Most Texas Senators have signed on to a new bill that increases the residence homestead exemption to $140,000. Twenty-nine ...

Local officials, school advocates and tax policy experts said such a proposal could have dire impacts on basic services.

The exterior of the Texas Capitol seen from Congress Avenue in Austin on Monday, Jan. 13, 2025. (Juan Figueroa / Staff Photographer) AUSTIN — Texas House and Senate budget writers filed the ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Over the last 10 years, I've become accustomed to life in Texas. I'm Australian, but my wife's Texan, so we spend two months a year living in ...

A natural gas flare in Garden City. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has sued the federal government to stop a methane tax aimed at reducing emissions of the potent greenhouse gas. Credit ...

Leach told Jack, "That is not our money. That is the money of the people of Texas. In terms of property tax relief, providing school choice, we need to continue to make sure we do that.