Notice of Hearing on Tax Increases for Brown County

August 28, 2024 at 12:03 pm staff writer

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

ON TAX INCREASE

A tax rate of $0.47200 per $100 valuation has been proposed by the governing body of Brown County Texas.

PROPOSED TAX RATE $0.47200 per $100

NO-NEW-REVENUE TAX RATE $0.45884 per $100

VOTER-APPROVAL TAX RATE $0.47200 per $100

The no-new-revenue tax rate is the tax rate for the 2024 tax year that will raise the same amount of property tax revenue for Brown County Texas from the same properties in both the 2023 tax year and the 2024 tax year.

The voter-approval rate is the highest tax rate that Brown County Texas may adopt without holding an election to seek voter approval of the rate.

The proposed tax rate is greater than the no-new-revenue tax rate. This means that Brown County Texas is proposing to increase property taxes for the 2024 tax year.

A PUBLIC HEARING ON THE PROPOSED TAX RATE WILL BE HELD ON September 9, 2024 AT 09:00 AT Brown County Commissioners Courtroom.

The proposed tax rate is not greater than the voter-approval tax rate. As a result, Brown County Texas is not required to hold an election at which voters may accept or reject the proposed tax rate. However, you may express your support for or opposition to the proposed tax rate by contacting the members of the of Brown County Texas at their offices or by attending the public hearing mentioned above.

YOUR TAXES OWED UNDER ANY OF THE RATES MENTIONED ABOVE CAN BE CALCULATED AS FOLLOWS:

Property tax amount= (tax rate) x (taxable value of your property)/100

FOR the proposal: Shane Britton, County Judge,

Gary Worley – Comm Pct 1, Joel Kelton – Comm Pct 2,

Wayne Shaw – Comm Pct 3, Larry Traweek – Comm Pct 4

AGAINST the proposal: none

PRESENT and not voting: none

ABSENT: none

Visit Texas.gov/PropertyTaxes to find a link to your local property tax database on which you can easily access information regarding your property taxes, including information about proposed tax rates and scheduled public hearings of each entity that taxes your property.

The 86th Texas Legislature modified the manner in which the voter-approval tax rate is calculated to limit the rate of growth of property taxes in the state.

The following table compares the taxes imposed on the average residence homestead by Brown County Texas last year to the taxes proposed to be imposed on the average residence homestead by Brown County Texas this year.

	2023	2024	Change
Total tax rate (per $100 of value)	$0.45223	$0.47200	increase of 0.01977, or 4.37%
Average homestead taxable value	$179,407	$163,119	decrease of -16,288, or -9.08%
Tax on average homestead	$811.33	$769.92	decrease of -41.41, or -5.10%
Total tax levy on all properties	$18,665,808	$19,477,227	increase of 811,419, or 4.35%

For assistance with tax calculations, please contact the tax assessor for Brown County Texas at 325-643-5676 or [email protected], or visit www.brown-cad.org for more information.