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Tax assessor outlines property-tax timetable ahead of budget season
Summary
Orange County Tax Assessor-Collector Octavia Guzman told council the key dates for the 2026 tax-rate process — preliminary values April 30, certified rolls by July 25/early August, and tax-rate adoption by Sept. 30 — and urged early coordination between taxing entities and the appraisal district.
Orange County Tax Assessor-Collector Octavia Guzman presented an overview of the property tax-rate process to the City of Orange Council on Jan. 27, stressing calendar deadlines and the data the assessor's office needs from taxing entities to calculate rates.
Guzman told council the office begins preparing months ahead of October and that taxing units receive preliminary values around April 30. She said the…
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