?The Texas comptroller is trying to make it easier for Texans to find out who exactly is reaching into their wallets for tax revenue.
Comptroller Susan Combs has created a new website ? http://www.texastransparency.org/yourmoney/localtax/? intended to help taxpayers get a handle on sales and property tax rates from cities, counties, special purpose districts, transit authorities and others.
Comptroller Susan Combs
?Taxpayers deserve to know who?s in their wallets,? Combs said. ?Texans should know who is taxing them on the local level, how they are being taxed and where their tax dollars are being spent.?
Harris County has 535 different taxing entities, Combs said. Dallas County has about 100 and Bexar County has 73 different taxing jurisdictions.
Terrell County east of Dallas has the fewest taxing entities with only two, she said.
Texas has more than 4,000 special taxing districts. Combs wonders how many are necessary and suggested that Texas lawmakers may want to sunset those that have outlived their usefulness.
The website gives taxpayers more information, said Peggy Venable, head of the Texas office of Americans for Prosperity.
She called it a useful tool that ?our activists and taxpayers across our state will appreciate.?
The Texas transparency website includes interactive maps for a close-up view of the local entities that assess property tax and sales tax in each of Texas? 254 counties. Combs also released a report entitled ?Your Money and the Taxing Facts? that provides context for the web tool, including trends in local taxation.
The report is part of Combs? continuing package of,? ?Texas, It?s Your Money? aimed to help taxpayers know more about all the ways their wallets are impacted. Taxpayers can find the report and follow the series at www.TexasItsYourMoney.org.
Combs said her next report will focus on the growing debt obligation that Texas is carrying.
Venable said her organization has identified $322 billion in principle and interest that Texans owe, including $106 billion for school districts and about $100 billion for cities.
?It?s hard to get your arms around,? she said.
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