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Kerr County assessor outlines 2025 tax-rate formulas; residents urge cuts after disaster
Summary
At a special Kerr County Court meeting Aug. 4, Tax Assessor-Collector Bob Reeves explained the county's 2025 property-tax calculations and presented no-new-revenue and voter-approval benchmark rates. Residents urged the court to lower rates and reject an earlier-discussed emergency 8% increase.
Kerr County Court met in a special session Monday, Aug. 4, and heard a presentation from Tax Assessor-Collector Bob Reeves on the 2025 property-tax calculations used to produce the county's no-new-revenue and voter-approval benchmark rates.
Reeves told the court, "The no new revenue rate, as I said, I'm 99.9% certain, is 0.4024." He explained the "no new revenue" figure compares the same properties across two years and adjusts for market appreciation and changes such as newly granted agricultural valuation. On possible ceilings, Reeves gave the voter-approval rate as "0.4867 per $100" if the court uses the 3.5% factor, and 0.4601 under an emergency calculation.
The technical definitions mattered to residents at the meeting. Terry Hall of…
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