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Texas-Style Tax Cut

Source: Dave McNeely, State Legislatures, Vol. 33 no. 4, April 2007
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A commission, with business support, was able to do what the legislature couldn’t—change the tax structure in Texas.

After years of backing and filling, Texas lawmakers finally cut the state’s over-extended local property tax last year. The Texas Supreme Court made them.