{"id":293179,"date":"2026-05-14T17:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T17:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/293179\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T17:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T17:24:08","slug":"tx-ag-rusk-livingston-amongst-over-10-east-texas-cities-accused-of-illegally-raising-taxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/293179\/","title":{"rendered":"TX AG: Rusk, Livingston amongst over 10 East Texas cities accused of illegally raising taxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">AUSTIN, Texas (KLTV) &#8211; Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has found over 10 East Texas cities to be amongst more than 130 accused of having illegally raised taxes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Paxton <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texasattorneygeneral.gov\/news\/releases\/attorney-general-ken-paxton-demands-documents-over-1000-municipalities-part-new-effort-stop-cities?utm_content=&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_name=&amp;utm_source=govdelivery&amp;utm_term=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.texasattorneygeneral.gov\/news\/releases\/attorney-general-ken-paxton-demands-documents-over-1000-municipalities-part-new-effort-stop-cities?utm_content=&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_name=&amp;utm_source=govdelivery&amp;utm_term=\">began the investigation<\/a> in April, looking to identify cities that violated SB 1851, which bans cities from raising property taxes above the no-new-revenue rate if they do not meet audit and transparency requirements. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The investigation included over 1,000 Texas cities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texasattorneygeneral.gov\/news\/releases\/attorney-general-ken-paxton-sends-letters-prohibiting-over-130-texas-cities-illegally-raising-taxes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.texasattorneygeneral.gov\/news\/releases\/attorney-general-ken-paxton-sends-letters-prohibiting-over-130-texas-cities-illegally-raising-taxes\">130 cities<\/a> were found to be in violation for the new fiscal year, including the following East Texas cities: <\/p>\n<p>LivingstonRuskHuntingtonCorriganMount EnterpriseEustaceElkhartYantisChirenoToolBerryvilleCentervilleClarksville<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Paxton said notification letters have been sent to the cities found to be in violation.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KLTV. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas (KLTV) &#8211; Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has found over 10 East Texas cities to be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293180,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-293179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293179","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=293179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}