The county tax office collects taxes in one bill for all the local jurisdictions, including the school district, fire department and other local entities. Some tax bills also include special taxing jurisdictions such as a MUD.
Most effective property tax rates in Texas are between 1.5% and 3.5%. Most of the time, when we send our invoice in the summer or fall of the current tax year, the currently known tax rate is the previous year’s tax rate.
We cannot protest your tax rate, unfortunately. This is set by voters, specific budgets and local entities. We use official data in our tax rate calculation that can be verified by the county tax collector’s office.