Property Taxes
Following more than two months of uncertainty in the wake of a ransomware attack, the Dallas Central Appraisal District website is back up and running. The November hack rocked the real estate community and property owners trying to gather information for tax protests and homestead exemptions. The deadline to pay property taxes is Jan. 31.…
Read MoreThe Dallas Central Appraisal District is still operating on a bare-bones website in the wake of a ransomware attack, and one local tax expert says homeowners who corresponded electronically with the local office could be facing a security threat of their own. Glenn Goodrich, founder and CEO of propertytax.io, said he’s not mad at DCAD…
Read MoreA lot happened at Dallas City Hall in 2022 — some good and some that led us to shake our heads and say, “Sounds like a 2023 problem.” We at CandysDirt.com were challenged in narrowing it down to the biggest eight stories to come out of Dallas City Hall this year. City Manager T.C. Broadnax…
Read MoreDallas administrators reviewed Tuesday the city’s $4.51 billion proposed budget for the 2023-24 fiscal year. The figure is based on a property tax rate of 74.58 cents per $100 assessed valuation, a reduction of about 2.75 cents from last year’s rate. City Manager T.C. Broadnax said the proposed tax rate reduction represents the largest decrease…
Read MoreI was in Nashville, Tennessee, recently, interviewing agents there as I perused their gorgeous property offerings. Found out a lot of people are choosing Nashville over Dallas (and Texas) as they relocate from either California, the Midwest, or the East Coast. Why? Tennessee property taxes are one-third of Texas’. And there is no state income…
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