County Appraiser still waiting for Pharr’s tax-exempt application

By G. Romero Wendorf

PHARR – Property taxes. Ugh. No one likes them except for the taxing entities they help fund. However, what if your annual property tax (ad valorem) bill were in the neighborhood of $1 million?

Is that the sound of you fainting as you drop to the floor?

Last month, Hidalgo County Chief Appraiser Rolando Garza mentioned in a story published in The Advance that some large apartment complexes (50+ units and up) were especially hard hit this year, in the 10-to-20-percent range with regard to property valuation increases, with the owners of some of the larger ones shocked to see that their property appraisals had jumped 200 percent.

Read the entire story on the e-Edition of our newspaper. http://www.etypeservices.com/Advance%20News%20JournalID455/