My appraisal was up 8.9% Y/Y, but my tax bill was up 20.05% Y/Y. So the rate must have increased faster than the appraisal value — they don’t provide a blended tax rate to make it easy to see.
My bill includes:
- City of Austin
- Austin ISD
- Travis County
- Travis Central Health
- ACC (Travis)
There are things on my bill that don’t represent good value (for example, the new APD contract doesn’t seem like a good value unless they dramatically increase the services they are providing). That said, I am okay with paying property taxes for city services.
What I don’t think I, or anyone else, can afford is to sustain 20% Y/Y increases in property tax bills. I’ve been here since 1996 and like Austin, but if you play this out over the next decade unless the city and county change their spending and tax tune, Austin is going to be as expensive as Vail.
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