Texas Scorecard by Brandon Waltens December 9, 2025
Attorney General Ken Paxton is escalating his confrontation with local governments over property tax compliance, launching a sweeping investigation into nearly 1,000 Texas cities.
This comes just months after previously ordering four municipalities to pause their newly adopted tax rates amid allegations of audit violations.
Paxton’s office said the widened review is aimed at ensuring strict adherence to Senate Bill 1851, the new state law that bars any city out of audit compliance from raising property taxes above the no-new-revenue rate.
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