In 2019, the Texas Legislature passed legislation to help Texans better understand tax rates in their home county. Access timely information about how local tax rate decisions affect your tax bill on your county’s Truth in Taxation website. Visit Texas.gov/PropertyTaxes to find a link to your local property tax transparency database on which you can easily access information regarding your property taxes, including information regarding the amount of taxes that each entity that taxes your property will impose if the entity adopts its proposed tax rate. Your local property tax transparency database will be updated regularly during August and September as local elected officials propose and adopt the property tax rates that will determine how much you pay in property taxes.

Follow the instructions below to register to receive notifications regarding updates to the property tax database:

A property owner may register to receive email notifications regarding updates to the property tax database by following the instructions found on the Harris Central Appraisal District’s homepage, www.HCAD.org, under the Property Tax Database Information.

You may request the same information from the assessor of each taxing unit for your property by requesting their contact information from the Harris County Tax Assessor-Collector's website at https://www.hctax.net/Property/JurisdictionTaxRates.