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Texas has Independent School Districts (ISD). I'm not sure how the boundaries were drawn many years ago. The tax colector is housed in school board officies and may be an employee of the school board. I never asked that when I lived in TX. 100% of property tax goes to the school district. I don't know the formula used to determine tax rate, but I'm sure the state regulates it somehow. But certainly there are inequities as the value of property varies by ISD such as in the Houston area where there are projects in some areas and the neighborhood called River Oaks where George and Barbara Bush use to live before he was elected President. There is an ISD in east TX who had many oil wells which made them so rich they chose not to accept any state/federal money for their schools! I've seen some of the Greek houses at UT Austin and I'm sure they could have a rather heafty property tax bill. I'll see if I can find out about that.
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KYale
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