Why have the appraisal districts become so much more aggressive in increasing property taxes during the last three to five years?
Because of the annual ratio study performed for each school district by the Texas Comptroller’s office. The Texas Comptroller has told many appraisal districts their values are substantially below market value and need to be increased. If the appraisal districts do not increase the values to a level acceptable to the Texas Comptroller, the school districts can lose a part of their school funding to the state due to Robin Hood school funding provisions.
