And for good reason.
The Dallas Morning News is reporting that
More than 750,000 Texas drivers haven’t paid mandatory annual surcharges on their traffic violations, forcing them to drive without valid licenses and depriving the state treasury of nearly $620 million – much of which was supposed to be used for trauma care.
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So I received my 2007 Notice of Appraised Value from the Travis County Appraisal District today. The appraised value of my house more than doubled. The land the house sits on exactly doubled. And, thus, my property taxes more than doubled, with the single highest tax, of course, being for Austin ISD.
But that’s not what […]