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This page is a work in progress analysis for reform of the Texas taxation situation. The goal is to identify where the spending is going, which areas better manage their resources and why, and where people are rightfully complaining. | This page is a work in progress analysis for reform of the Texas taxation situation. The goal is to identify where the spending is going, which areas better manage their resources and why, and where people are rightfully complaining. | ||
I started by picking a county for which one individual was frustrated by the property taxation. I downloaded the data for the taxing districts which that individual may be subject to and began analysis of the rates and the values. | |||
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*Jasper County has a rate of 0.65 [http://www.county.org/about-texas-counties/county-data/Documents/index.html] The rates were as low as 0.43 back in 1998, trended up to 0.70 in 2006 and have been trending down since then. | |||
*City of Jasper has a rate of 0.3182 | |||
*Jasper County Water Control & Improvement District #1 has a rate of 0.293 | |||
*Jasper County Emergency Services District #1 through #4 has a rate of 0.03, respectively. | |||
=Resources= | =Resources= | ||
http://www.county.org/about-texas-counties/county-data/Documents/index.html | *http://www.county.org/about-texas-counties/county-data/Documents/index.html | ||
http://www.efairness.org/case-for-fairness/how-sales-tax-impacts-us-all.html | *http://www.efairness.org/case-for-fairness/how-sales-tax-impacts-us-all.html | ||
https://files.taxfoundation.org/legacy/docs/Tax_Foundation_Carolina_Business_Coalition_North_Carolina_Recommendations.pdf | *https://files.taxfoundation.org/legacy/docs/Tax_Foundation_Carolina_Business_Coalition_North_Carolina_Recommendations.pdf | ||
*http://www.brb.state.tx.us | |||
*http://www.county.org/about-texas-counties/county-data/Pages/Financial-Data.aspx | |||
Revision as of 19:03, 10 August 2017
This page is a work in progress analysis for reform of the Texas taxation situation. The goal is to identify where the spending is going, which areas better manage their resources and why, and where people are rightfully complaining.
I started by picking a county for which one individual was frustrated by the property taxation. I downloaded the data for the taxing districts which that individual may be subject to and began analysis of the rates and the values.
Analysis
- Jasper County has a rate of 0.65 [1] The rates were as low as 0.43 back in 1998, trended up to 0.70 in 2006 and have been trending down since then.
- City of Jasper has a rate of 0.3182
- Jasper County Water Control & Improvement District #1 has a rate of 0.293
- Jasper County Emergency Services District #1 through #4 has a rate of 0.03, respectively.
Resources
- http://www.county.org/about-texas-counties/county-data/Documents/index.html
- http://www.efairness.org/case-for-fairness/how-sales-tax-impacts-us-all.html
- https://files.taxfoundation.org/legacy/docs/Tax_Foundation_Carolina_Business_Coalition_North_Carolina_Recommendations.pdf
- http://www.brb.state.tx.us
- http://www.county.org/about-texas-counties/county-data/Pages/Financial-Data.aspx