MCKINNEY , Collin County Commissioners Court kept the county property tax rate at $0.149343 per $100 of taxable value for fiscal year 2026, the 33rd consecutive year without a rate increase, while adopting a Total Combined Budget (excluding bond funds) of $599.2 million. The Senate Bill 2 cover statement required on the adopted budget says … Read more
AUSTIN / DALLAS-FORT WORTH , Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton opened a statewide investigation on Sept. 24, 2026, into hundreds of data center developments that have not answered the Texas Water Development Board’s water-use survey, and the Office of the Attorney General’s county list expressly includes Dallas and Tarrant. The probe is about reporting compliance, … Read more
DALLAS , Dallas City Council approved a Fiscal Year 2026-27 operating and capital budget totaling $5.66 billion, including a $2.05 billion General Fund, and cut the property tax rate by one-tenth of a cent to 69.78 cents per $100 of valuation, according to the city’s official Sept. 16, 2026 release. The fiscal year began Oct. … Read more
FORT WORTH — Fort Worth City Council unanimously tabled a proposed 50% property tax abatement for Edged Data Centers’ planned $1 billion facility on about 186 acres at Veale Ranch during its March 31, 2026 meeting, after council members and residents pressed for clearer local benefits, noise and water limits, and grid oversight. The item, … Read more
GRAND PRAIRIE — The City of Grand Prairie published a Texas Tax Code public notice that its City Council would consider a tax abatement agreement with Amazon Data Services, Inc. for a large-scale data center campus estimated at $10 billion in improvements, about 800,000 square feet of space, and roughly 750 new full-time jobs over … Read more
The lower Denton ISD tax rate is the figure homesteaders will see on the rate adopted for the new fiscal year. DENTON, Texas – Denton ISD trustees on Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2026, adopted a lower total property tax rate of $1.1528 per $100 of taxable value for fiscal year 2026-27, a cut of more than … Read more