TRUTH IN TAXATION
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. Your local property tax database will be updated regularly during August and September as local elected officials propose and adopt the property tax rates that will determine how much you pay in property taxes.
Proposed Property Tax Bill Information is Available Online
Your taxing entities and elected officials decide their budgets and tax rates. These decisions directly impact your property tax bill.
Travis County property owners can visit TravisTaxes.com to look up your property, review how these decisions will affect you, and learn more about opportunities to participate in the process.
Information on your property will be updated as elected officials finalize their budgets and tax rates. To receive notifications as updates are available, click the “Register for Notification” option on the website.
Travis County property owners who would like more information from each taxing unit may request their contact information from our local Tax Assessor-Collector:
Travis County Tax Office
Celia Israel, Tax Assessor-Collector
P.O. Box 149328
Austin, TX 78714-9328
512-854-9473
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Each Texas county is served by an appraisal district that determines the value of all of the county’s real and personal property. Generally, a local government that collects property taxes, such as a county, city and school district, is a member of the appraisal district.
Taxing entities are the local government entities such as cities, hospital districts, junior colleges, and municipal utility districts. Taxing entities provide services to the taxpayers they service such as schools, roads, police, fire, and other services taxpayers expect.
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Property is taxed by the authority of the Texas Constitution. The Constitution sets forth five basic principles for property taxes in Texas.
- Taxes must be equal and uniform. No single property or type of property should pay more than its fair share.
- Property must be appraised on its current market value meaning the price that it would sell for on the open market when both the buyer and seller seek the best price and neither is under pressure to buy or sell.
- Each property in a county must have a single appraised value. This is guaranteed by the use of the county appraisal districts.
- All property is taxable unless federal or state law exempts it from the tax.
- Property owners have a right to reasonable notice of increases in their appraised property value.
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