{"id":421369,"date":"2026-08-30T23:56:31","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T23:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/421369\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T23:56:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T23:56:31","slug":"dallas-caps-property-tax-rate-with-8-6-council-vote-nbc-5-dallas-fort-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/421369\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas caps property tax rate with 8-6 council vote \u2013 NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While other Texas cities have increased taxes to balance their books, Dallas officials aren\u2019t going to do that. <\/p>\n<p>The City Council voted 8-6 to cap the rate at 69.78 cents per $100 of taxable value. They agreed with City Manager Kimberly Bizor Tolbert\u2019s budget recommendation, indicating officials could seek deeper cuts. <\/p>\n<p>Dallas has pursued tax rate cuts for 11 years straight, forgoing more than $200 million in revenue. Tolbert\u2019s $5.6 billion proposal offers a slight 0.10-cent decrease to its current rate, inspiring robust debate about whether it was enough or even necessary. <\/p>\n<p>The council will adopt the final budget Sept. 16.<\/p>\n<p>Council members debated whether to increase or lower the cap for more than an hour.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/politics\/article\/dallas-caps-property-tax-rate-bucking-hikes-22403279.php\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to read more on this report from our partners at The Dallas Morning News.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While other Texas cities have increased taxes to balance their books, Dallas officials aren\u2019t going to do that.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421370,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103],"class_list":["post-421369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421369","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=421369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}