Senior homeowners should have cheered the loudest because their homestead exemption will grow to $150,000 if the House ...

AUSTIN – It is now in the hands of the Texas House to decide what to do about a new property tax cut plan. The author of the Senate's plan calls it the largest exemption increase in state history.

For the past several years, Republican state lawmakers have pushed to rein in rising property tax bills. That push culminated ...

Texas Senators voted unanimously to increase the homestead exemption to $140K to provide tax relief to Texans. If passed in ...

The latest round of bills filed in the Texas Senate bills on a historic $18 billion relief effort approved during the legislature's last session.

The Texas Senate on Thursday quickly and unanimously advanced a proposal to provide billions of dollars in tax breaks to homeowners in a bid to blunt the state’s high property tax bills.

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 ...

Twenty-nine Texas senators, headed by Sen. Paul Bettencourt (R-Houston) made the move to lower property taxes, right on the heels of Gov. Greg Abbott's State of the State address that declared ...

Local officials, school advocates and tax policy experts said such a proposal could have dire impacts on basic services. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott wants all local governments to seek voter approval ...