{"id":446196,"date":"2026-09-24T11:58:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T11:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/446196\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T11:58:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T11:58:18","slug":"austin-community-college-adopts-tax-rate-0-24-increase-from-last-year-central-austin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/446196\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin Community College adopts tax rate, 0.24% increase from last year | Central Austin"},"content":{"rendered":"

Austin Community College<\/a> trustees unanimously approved a rate of $0.103643 per $100 of valuation on Sept. 14, up from $0.1034 last year<\/a>, according to a district announcement<\/a>. Because property values fell more than the rate rose, college officials said in a district release<\/a> that the average bill will effectively drop about 2.2% and the average homestead bill by about 1%.<\/p>\n

What it means for you<\/p>\n

Officials said the owner of an average home will pay about $5 less to the college this year, totaling about $557, down from $562 last year. On a $500,000 homestead, the ACC portion is about $513, according to the district’s property tax page<\/a>. Bills could still rise for homes whose values held steady or went up.<\/p>\n

The details<\/p>\n

The new rate is below ACC’s no-new-revenue rate of $0.105924, district documents<\/a> show, so the college will collect less from existing property. State law does not consider that a tax increase. The same documents show values on property taxed in both years fell about 1.6%.<\/p>\n

District officials said the slight increase is tied to debt on the $770 million bond<\/a> voters approved in 2022. At the time, ACC said it could repay the bond without raising its rate if values kept rising, according to its bond FAQ<\/a>. The debt portion remains close to its 2022 level, according to the district’s 2023 tax rate worksheet<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Some context<\/p>\n

Property taxes fund about 67% of ACC’s $583 million budget, the district said. When trustees approved that budget in July, officials said property tax revenue was down for the first time in 17 years, Community Impact reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“At a time when many Texans are facing higher costs, we’re pleased that the average ACC property tax bill will decrease,” Board Chair Sean Hassan said in the release.<\/p>\n

What’s next<\/p>\n

ACC makes up about 6% of the bill on a $500,000 Austin homestead, according to a Community Impact analysis. Austin ISD<\/a>, the city<\/a>, Travis County<\/a> and Central Health<\/a> make up the rest.<\/p>\n

Bills typically go out in the fall and are due Feb. 1, 2027, since Jan. 31 falls on a Sunday, according to the Travis County Tax Office<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Austin Community College trustees unanimously approved a rate of $0.103643 per $100 of valuation on Sept. 14, up…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446197,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[153898,121566,153899,133325,133323,132,11987,134,133,153896,153900,11039,151368,153901,153897],"class_list":["post-446196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-acc-2022-bond","tag-acc-board-of-trustees","tag-acc-budget-fy-2026-27","tag-acc-property-tax","tag-acc-tax-rate","tag-austin","tag-austin-community-college","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-austin-property-taxes-2026","tag-austin-tax-bill","tag-homestead-exemption","tag-no-new-revenue-rate","tag-property-tax-rates-austin","tag-travis-county-property-tax"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446196","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=446196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}