{"id":2575,"date":"2007-06-27T11:39:10","date_gmt":"2007-06-27T17:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=2575"},"modified":"2013-06-11T07:31:34","modified_gmt":"2013-06-11T13:31:34","slug":"county-taxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/county-taxes\/","title":{"rendered":"County taxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now here&#8217;s some interesting news from the <span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.county.org\/resources\/countydata\/products\/TaxRates\/index.html\">Texas Comptroller<\/span>.<br \/>\nThe latest numbers I have is for 2005 and I&#8217;m not sure if that means 2004-2005 or FY2005 or 2005-2006&#8230; but here&#8217;s some data on Texas Total County Property Tax Rates:<\/p>\n<p>The Average Tax Rate in 2005 was: <strong>0.531450673<\/strong><br \/>\nEllis County Tax Rate was: <strong>0.3499<\/strong><br \/>\nThere were <strong>28<\/strong> counties with a tax rate below .3499<br \/>\nAnd <strong>225<\/strong> counties with a tax rate above .3499<br \/>\nOf those 225, <strong>202<\/strong> of them were <strong>above .4<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If I&#8217;m not mistaken, our current tax rate is .3495. With the recent bond election, the tax rate is expected to increase between 3 and 4.5 cents or to .3795 or .3945. Even if somehow the bond had been expected to increase the tax rate by 5 cents, the county tax rate would be .3999, or below 4 cents per $100 of property valuation. So while many counties may very well have lowered their tax rate since 2005, if they remained at the same rate or higher, Ellis County will still have a tax rate lower than 202 of the 254 counties in Texas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now here&#8217;s some interesting news from the Texas Comptroller. The latest numbers I have is for 2005 and I&#8217;m not sure if that means 2004-2005 or FY2005 or 2005-2006&#8230; but here&#8217;s some data on Texas Total County Property Tax Rates: The Average Tax Rate in 2005 was: 0.531450673 Ellis County Tax Rate was: 0.3499 There &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/county-taxes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">County taxes<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[26,3,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ellis-county","category-misc","category-newsandpop"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-Fx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10807,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2575\/revisions\/10807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}