{"id":436797,"date":"2026-09-15T17:12:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T17:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/436797\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T17:12:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T17:12:12","slug":"collin-county-raises-tax-rate-for-first-time-since-1993","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/436797\/","title":{"rendered":"Collin County raises tax rate for first time since 1993"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the first time in 33 years, Collin County<\/a> homeowners will pay a higher property tax rate.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Collin County Commissioners Court voted to increase the rate from $0.149 per $100 of assessed value to $0.151 in the fiscal 2027 budget. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

The county is home to four of the nation\u2019s five fastest-growing cities. Collin County\u2019s spending grew slower than population and inflation growth in the last decade, according to the conservative think tank<\/a> Texas Public Policy Foundation.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The assessed value of the median home in the county increased compared to last year, and under the new tax rate, those residents would pay around $62.88 more in county property taxes compared to last year.<\/p>\n

However, it\u2019s possible that some residents could see a minor decrease in their tax bill. M\u00f3nika Arris, director of budget and finance for the county, said the tax rate hike will have different impacts on residents\u2019 bills, because the assessed value of a property does not change uniformly.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThis varies on the value of your home \u2026 the area you\u2019re living in, what happened in your particular area,\u201d Arris said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

County Judge Chris Hill was the only member of the five-person Commissioners Court who voted against increasing the tax rate. He proposed a motion to ask county departments to cut their spending to avoid raising the tax rate.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Hill honed in on employee raises. He said that over the last 11 years, county employees each got cumulative raises doubling their pay\u00a0and proposed asking departments to keep salaries flat this year, to keep the tax rate steady.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Commissioner Susan Fletcher, who represents parts of Frisco, Prosper and Celina, was skeptical about keeping salaries flat as a long-term solution. She said that the county struggles to fill certain positions because salaries are not competitive.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have literal department heads and elected officials coming to us and saying, \u2018Hey, we\u2019ve got \u2026 [position] that I can\u2019t fill because of the salary issue,\u2019 \u201d Fletcher said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In general, Fletcher said she was against keeping the tax rate flat while some county services were already \u201chistorically\u00a0underfunded\u201d as the population grows.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur citizens are our customers, and it is up to us to make sure that we provide the services \u2026 so they\u2019re not waiting for three hours in the tax office,\u201d Fletcher said.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the first time in 33 years, Collin County homeowners will pay a higher property tax rate.\u00a0 The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":436798,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[160,162,161,94256,88338,92708,88949,88944],"class_list":["post-436797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news","tag-tp-allen","tag-tp-collin-county","tag-tp-frisco","tag-tp-mckinney","tag-tp-plano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436797","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=436797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}