Does North Richland Hills currently offer any tax relief to senior citizens and disabled residents?
Yes. Currently, senior and disabled residents pay taxes on only 52% of their total property value on average because the City offers a $36,000 exemption on residential homesteads of persons 65 years of age or older and the disabled as well as a 15% homestead exemption to all homeowners. (The City of Arlington offers a $60,000 exemption as a comparison.) The average value of a home owned by a senior citizen in NRH is $108,602. When current exemptions are applied, the senior citizen or disabled resident who owns a home of this value pays $321 to the City in property taxes. A homeowner under the age of 65, who is not disabled, pays $526 in property taxes per year to the City for the same home. (This appears to be a blatant attempt to create class warfare between the young and old in our city. All of us are aging. Do we want to allow the City Council to continue their runaway spending based on ever increasing valuations? They have already created a Tax Increment Financing District to diver
