{"id":444180,"date":"2026-09-22T16:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T16:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/444180\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T16:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T16:18:09","slug":"dallas-county-to-delay-release-of-property-tax-bills-until-after-november-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/444180\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas County to delay release of property tax bills until after November election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dallas County property owners may have to wait a little longer for their 2026 tax bills.<\/p>\n<p>The county says bills won\u2019t be mailed in October as usual because voters will decide Nov. 3 whether to approve a higher tax rate tied to funding for homelessness services. <\/p>\n<p>Dallas County has already adopted a higher rate, but the final amount depends on the election.<\/p>\n<p>Tax Assessor John Ames said bills will still be calculated Oct. 1 using the tentative rates. That means anyone who checks their bill online could see a higher amount before Election Day.<\/p>\n<p>If a tax-rate measure fails, Ames said taxpayers who overpay will automatically receive a refund. The county says its tax rate is increasing for the first time in 16 years, although the final increase will depend on the Nov. 3 vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dallas County property owners may have to wait a little longer for their 2026 tax bills. The county&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":444181,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,581,104,103,287,6608],"class_list":["post-444180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-county","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-politics","tag-property-tax"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444180","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=444180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}