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Old 04-28-2007, 11:20 AM
 
Location: Stuck on the East Coast, hoping to head West
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Ok, I'm interested in San Antonio area--thinking about New Braunfels. I have info from San Antonio chamber and have visited the tax website and am completely and utterly confused. Are property taxes about 3% of the appraised value? But if you homestead than you are limited to only 10% increase per year?

I read the county tax rates, but than there are also city rates and they have a school tax, too??? Can anyone just give me an example, if say, you bought something for $200,000? I think I'm truly losing my mind--and didn't have all that much to begin with

Thank you so much in advance, I appreciate it
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Old 04-28-2007, 12:38 PM
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The total tax rate is about 3%. This consists of school tax (about 1.5%), county tax, city tax, hospital district tax, and a few others, but the total of all these is about 3%.
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Old 04-28-2007, 01:10 PM
 
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Thank you--I appreciate it. I was confused because I had charts of all of the taxes broken out--way too much information. Thanks, again.
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Old 04-28-2007, 04:15 PM
 
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Here are examples:

Alamo Heights ISD
06 BEXAR CO RD & FLOOD 0.012719
08 SA RIVER AUTH 0.016045
09 ALAMO COM COLLEGE 0.137050
10 UNIV HEALTH SYSTEM 0.243869
11 BEXAR COUNTY 0.314147
21 CITY OF SAN ANTONIO 0.578540
50 ALAMO HEIGHTS ISD 1.486600
CAD BEXAR APPRAISAL DISTRICT 0.000000
Total Tax Rate: 2.788970

North East ISD
06 BEXAR CO RD & FLOOD 0.012719
08 SA RIVER AUTH 0.016045
09 ALAMO COM COLLEGE 0.137050
10 UNIV HEALTH SYSTEM 0.243869
11 BEXAR COUNTY 0.314147
21 CITY OF SAN ANTONIO 0.578540
55 NORTHEAST ISD 1.669000
CAD BEXAR APPRAISAL DISTRICT 0.000000
Total Tax Rate: 2.971370

For more information, check out http://www.bcad.org and http://www.comalad.org. Hope this helps.
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Old 04-28-2007, 08:47 PM
 
Location: Helotes, TX
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If you have a $200k house your taxes will be very close to $5000 per year. If your house is your homestead then regardless of how much your estimated value goes up they can't raise it more than 10%/yr. Also if you buy there will be a bazillion private companies sending your forms to claim your homestead that look 'official' and they charge you for it. If you look online at the Bexar county website you can print out the form and send it in, there's no charge. I can't believe how many companies out there sent us those things and tried to charge us for it!
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Old 04-29-2007, 12:08 AM
 
Location: Western Bexar County
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Below, are the current tax rates if you live outside San Antonio city limits on the far West side (no city tax) in the Northside ISD. Note: I lowered the Northside ISD tax rate to the amount stated on the latest BCAD Appraised Value form. The adjusted total tax rate is 2.06%. So, if you had no exemptions, a $200,000 house (in this specific area) would cost you $4,124.66 in property taxes (subtract about $240 for a homestead exemption). Exemptions do not affect your tax rate, but are subtracted from your appraised value (listed under taxable value column on BCAD.org). You have until this coming Monday (April 30th) to file for any exemptions.

Entity/Description/Tax Rate
06 BEXAR CO RD & FLOOD 0.012719
08 SA RIVER AUTH 0.016045
09 ALAMO COM COLLEGE 0.137050
10 UNIV HEALTH SYSTEM 0.243869
11 BEXAR COUNTY 0.314147
56 NORTHSIDE ISD 1.2685
BEXAR CO EMERG DIST #2 0.070000
Total Tax Rate: 2.06233

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Old 04-29-2007, 04:59 PM
 
Location: Stuck on the East Coast, hoping to head West
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Default Thank you, thank you, thank you

Thank you so much for the examples, explanations and warnings (re the Homestead companies--jeesh) I'm in Maryland right now and since I posted have actually sat down and added up how much we're paying in income tax & property tax here and was shocked. Although it kinda makes sense now as to how we can never get ahead. Again, thank you
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Old 04-29-2007, 07:01 PM
 
Location: Helotes, TX
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I lived in Germantown Md in the mid to late 90's and the property prices were skyrocketing back then. I was a student and did not own a home but I paid taxes and as I recall they were insanely high and near impossible to do correctly. Every year they'd send them back to me. Corrected. Mind you I came from Cali so I was familiar with high taxes but dang, did they have to make them so complicated?
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Old 05-07-2007, 05:45 AM
 
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Question Taxes,taxes Taxes This Is Making Me Scared To Buy!!!

Can anyone tell us, what taxes to expect in Guadalupe county. We will be new to TX and are scared to death of what taxes are going to do to our NEW home buying DREAMS in the future... Can anyone tell us who has got the most to offer and the least amount of high taxes and insurances with great schools.
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Old 05-07-2007, 07:49 PM
 
Location: Western Bexar County
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Originally Posted by t3t2smart View Post
Can anyone tell us, what taxes to expect in Guadalupe county. We will be new to TX and are scared to death of what taxes are going to do to our NEW home buying DREAMS in the future... Can anyone tell us who has got the most to offer and the least amount of high taxes and insurances with great schools.

Try this link:

http://www.guadalupead.org/exemption.htm
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