Henderson County Fiscal Court adopts 2025–26 tax rates, adds timber levy

Henderson County Fiscal Court on Aug. 26 adopted the countytax rates for the 2025'6 fiscal year, setting rates per $100 of assessed value and levying a three-cent-per-acre timber tax. The tax order read into the record lists a 12.8 rate for real property, 18.4 for personal property, 8.5 for motor vehicles, 11.8 for public service company real estate and 17.5 for public service company personal property. Expected revenues shown in the order include $3,542,855 for real property and smaller amounts for other categories. The order also sets an 8.5 rate for watercraft and levies a three-cent-per-acre timber tax credited to the Forest Fire Protection Account. County Judge/Executive Brad Schneider presided while the fiscal court clerk read the tax order into the record. Magistrate Starks moved to adopt the tax rates as read; Magistrate Southard seconded. A voice vote was held with all present voting in favor and the motion carried. Why it matters: the rates set the countybudgetary baseline for property-tax collections in the coming year and maintain a timber tax to fund the countyForest Fire Protection Account. Details: the order lists the following rates and projected revenues per the record: real property, 12.8 (expected revenue $3,542,855); personal property, 18.4 ($854,138); motor vehicles, 8.5 ($370,372); public service company real estate, 11.8 ($69,861); public service company personal, 17.5 ($423,013); watercraft, 8.5 ($14,405). The timber tax of three cents per acre is to be levied on privately owned timberland required to be listed for taxation and credited to the Forest Fire Protection Account. Process and next steps: the court approved the rates on a voice vote without a recorded roll-call. The order appears as the countyrecord for 2025'6; no further action or appeals were recorded at the meeting. Ending: Court members present voted in favor; the court noted the rates in the minutes and moved on to other agenda items.