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CX500T
Show that on a county by county average. Because there's a whole lot of rural counties with low rates, but they aren't where the majority of airline pilots are going to live.
My tax rate is about 1.75% of my houses appraised value. But that's school, fire, county, local, every tax that is paid to the township/county/state other than income / sales taxes.
When I owned a house in Corpus Christi it was north of 2.5% with MUD and ISD taxes and I didn't live in a fancy part of town.
You can contact tax foundation for more detailed breakdown than what they provided in that article, but you're right, Texas is terrible nobody else move here (especially those senior to me) !
I just looked at my recent total property tax bill and it's effectively 1% when you include everything.
The new(ish) laws and homestead increases helped knock them back down in recent years.
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