{"id":25406,"date":"2025-10-29T00:52:45","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T00:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/25406\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T00:52:45","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T00:52:45","slug":"how-prop-q-could-affect-your-property-tax-bill-in-austin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/25406\/","title":{"rendered":"How Prop Q could affect your property tax bill in Austin"},"content":{"rendered":"

Austin voters will decide the fate of Proposition Q on Election Day. The measure would raise up to $110 million to fund parks, social programs and emergency services by increasing the city’s tax rate.<\/p>\n

If early voting totals are to be believed, Austinites are fired up about this citywide referendum. <\/p>\n

Opponents argue the increase is a sign of spending run amok at City Hall and that this tax increase isn’t necessary to maintain vital city services. Supporters say this tax rate election is a necessity and state law has kneecapped Austin’s ability to pay for its ever-growing needs. <\/p>\n

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The bottom line is tax bills for Austin property owners are going up next year. But, there’s been misinformation that this election would mean a “20% property tax increase<\/a>” or that it would raise a homeowner’s bill far higher than it actually would<\/a>. <\/p>\n

If Prop Q passes, tax bills for property owners will go up, with the tax rate increasing by 20% compared to last year, but that doesn’t equate to a 20% increase on a person’s bill. <\/p>\n

The city anticipates that would mean about $300 a year for someone with a home valued at $500,000.<\/p>\n

Below is a calculator to see how much you would pay in city property taxes if Prop Q passes and if it were to fail. The Prop Q tax rate is 57 cents per $100 property valuation, while the rate the city would adopt if it fails is roughly 53 cents per $100 valuation on your property.<\/p>\n

After a recent constitutional amendment , these rates are required to be published online, and KUT News is using the rates provided to the Travis Central Appraisal District (TCAD) per that state law. <\/p>\n

If you’re a property owner, these calculations do not constitute your whole tax bill \u2014\u00a0just the city’s portion, which is the sole focus of this tax rate election. TCAD has its own calculator<\/a> for your entire property tax bill, which includes any homestead exemptions you may have that we could not include here on a property-by-property basis.<\/p>\n

Property Tax Calculator<\/p>\n

Property taxes under Prop Q<\/p>\n

$3,743<\/p>\n

Property taxes if Prop Q fails<\/p>\n

$3,166<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Austin voters will decide the fate of Proposition Q on Election Day. The measure would raise up to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25407,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,10939,1501,134,133,17941,3759,4129,2062,2063,17942,6514],"class_list":["post-25406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-budget","tag-austin-city-council","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-austin-property-taxes","tag-city-of-austin","tag-kirk-watson","tag-prop-q","tag-property-taxes","tag-property-taxes-in-austin","tag-proposition-q"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}