As early voting gets underway, voters are able to weigh in on who controls property appraisals for the first time.
Voters will be asked to elect three members of their appraisal district boards in the state's 50 largest counties, which include most of North Texas.It comes as Texans are once again dealing with property appraisal sticker shock."I really haven't done anything to my property, to the house or the land itself, but yet they've continued to increase for tax purposes," said Craig Cockle, who lives in Oak Cliff.
While most voters focused on the increase to the Homestead Exemption, that measure last November also created the elected appraisal board positions."The pros would be that it creates a greater level of citizen involvement, that it gives ordinary taxpayers, ordinary voters, more of a direct say in how property taxes are apportioned, appraised," said Wilson.He says it also brings politics into the process.
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