DALLAS — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has launched a probe into almost 1,000 Texas cities to make sure they’re following a new state law aimed at preventing localities from unduly raising property taxes, his office said Tuesday.
The initiative is designed to enforce a new state law that says cities can’t raise more in property taxes than they did the previous year if they don’t follow financial transparency requirements set out in state law. The new law is part of a broader push by Texas Republicans to bring the state’s high property taxes to heel.
Paxton has requested financial documents and other information from a majority of the state’s 1,200 cities, his office said. Paxton did not allege any wrongdoing by the cities in the Tuesday news release.
