Harris County commissioners are reportedly taking advantage of a loophole in state law to raise property taxes by 8 percent without voter approval.
Homeowners in Texas' most populous county are facing an 8 percent increase in property tax following recent storms in the state.Hurricane Beryl made landfall in Texas as a Category 1 storm on July 8, knocking out power to almost 3 million people at the peak of outages, most of them in the Houston area.Commissioners in Harris County, which includes most of Houston, are taking advantage of a loophole in state law that allows them to exceed the state-imposed 3.
We were able to fund all of our programs this year, take care of all of our business this year, do everything we need to do this year, but we need another $268 million? We have a spending problem in Harris County, not a revenue problem in Harris County.'Ramsey also said he was concerned the additional revenue would be spent on social programs rather than improving infrastructure and making it more weather resilient.
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