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Hidalgo County sets ceiling on proposed 2025 tax rate at $0.575 per $100, commissioners vote unanimously
Summary
The Hidalgo County Commissioners Court took a record vote to set a proposed 2025 property tax rate not to exceed $0.575 per $100 of valuation; staff presented revenue estimates and a conservative 95% collection rate. A later public hearing and final adoption were left for subsequent court proceedings.
Hidalgo County Commissioners Court took a record vote on a proposed ceiling for the 2025 property tax rate, voting unanimously to set a maximum rate “not to exceed 0.575” (57.5 cents) per $100 of property valuation.
The court’s budget staff presented the county’s no-new-revenue and voter-approval benchmarks and recommended a ceiling rather than a fixed adopted rate. The budget presentation estimated general-fund revenues of $344,211,177 and said that at a 0.575 tax rate the county would collect about $303,844,309 in…
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