> Travis County's tax office has collected about 99% of 2021 property taxes
I'm impressed that a government agency publishes tax collection rates.
I'm also impressed that they are so high - I was imagining that they'd only manage to collect ~80% after fraud, bankruptcies, missing/wrong property data, people uncontactable/missing/dead, etc.
Travis County - and all counties in Texas - makes their property tax rates, appraisals, and other germane information public by default.
For Travis County, the information is at traviscad.org ("cad" = "County Appraisal District"); for Williamson County, wcad.org; and so on with variations on county name.
As to the 99% rate: most people are paying a combined escrowed property tax + mortgage combo, so I'm not surprised at such a high number - no tax collected means you've got bigger problems.
I suspect it's 99% of dollars because property tax on houses is really easy to track down, but some other property taxes would be more fluid (especially if "off the books" in some matter).
I'm impressed that a government agency publishes tax collection rates.
I'm also impressed that they are so high - I was imagining that they'd only manage to collect ~80% after fraud, bankruptcies, missing/wrong property data, people uncontactable/missing/dead, etc.