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Ellis County appraiser outlines 2026 personal property exemptions, warns taxes will shift to real estate
Summary
Ellis County Appraiser Eugene Grupp summarized 2025 state legislation removing many categories of personal property from county assessment rolls in 2026 — off‑road vehicles, trailers under 15,000 lb, watercraft — and estimated about $1,000,000 of assessed valuation will be removed, shifting tax burden to real estate.
Eugene Grupp, Ellis County appraiser, briefed commissioners Dec. 16 on changes passed by the 2025 legislature that will exempt several classes of personal property from annual listing beginning in 2026.
"Those items are going to be off‑road vehicles — things like ATVs, UTVs, golf carts, off‑road motorcycles, snowmobiles — and trailers with a loaded weight of 15,000 pounds or less," Grupp said. He added that…
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