, whose members include many of the state’s largest employers.
, president of the policy group, known as TTRA, and a former state budget director. “We just want to educate them and let them know there’s another side to this.”a senior fiscal analyst at Every Texan, a left-leaning advocacy group in Austin, said many businesses are effective at challenging tax appraisals and keeping property values low – often well below market rates.Texas is a textbook example of a regressive tax system, he said.
His take on Texas businesses carrying a heavy tax burden? “I’d say the corporate sector is doing a pretty good job of looking out for itself,” Lavine said. “And my organization is trying to look out for everyone else.” Various homestead exemptions remove an average 25% of market value from a homeowner’s property tax, the TTRA report said. Exemptions on business amount to about a 7% discount.
“The worst thing we could do with this huge surplus is to pick one set of winners to the exclusion of everything else in the economy,” Craymer said.
mitchschnurman lots of new commercial spaces built in Collin county sitting empty- rents are high, can't find employees, so now what?