Mayor Sylvester Turner said Wednesday he will ask voters in 2023 to amend the city's cap on property tax revenue to allow for more public safety spending, as the council cut the city's tax rate for the eighth time in nine years to get under that limit.
Houston City Hall. Mayor Sylvester Turner said Wednesday he will ask voters in 2023 to amend the city's cap on property tax revenue to allow for more public safety spending.
The city's cap on property taxes limits the growth in revenue to a formula that combines inflation and population increases, or 4.5 percent, whichever is lower. The city hit the former mark this year, as is standard. Charles Blain, an organizer with the conservative group Urban Reform, argued the cap is working as designed.
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