Property owners in Tarrant County paid 2.5% of the value of their homes in property taxes in the third quarter of 2022, which is more than 2.2 times the national average, according to the real estate analysis posted by the Ft Worth Times.
Despite lawmakers' continued promises of "historic property tax reform" rooted in three-year-old legislation, local governments – including Fort Worth – have set budgets and rates that all but guarantee property tax increases, according to a statewide fiscal watchdog's analysis.