After some across-the-aisle cooperation in recent years, Tarrant County commissioners are no longer unanimously trying to cut the property tax rate.
The proposed new tax rate is 18.62 cents per $100 valuation. That means the tax bill for the average home in Tarrant County — with a taxable value of about $277,000 — is expected to be about $516 a year. That’s a few dollars lower than the year prior.
Commissioners did not approve the final tax rate at Wednesday’s commissioners court meeting, but they voted to advance it in a 3-2 vote along party lines. Republican County Judge Tim O’Hare, who has made tax savings one of his main priorities, celebrated the proposed tax rate in a press release…