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About this elected seat: The Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts is the state’s chief financial officer. Among the office’s main responsibilities is collecting sales taxes from local government, managing hundreds of state contracts on behalf of other agencies and estimating the state’s revenue and economy, which instructs the Legislature’s budget drafting every two years. The office is also in charge of implementing a new $1 billion program that will offer parents taxpayer-funded vouchers to send their kids to private schools and pay for educational expenses.
