Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts Susan Combs has released a report entitled Your Money and the Taxing Factswhich analyzes taxation at the local level across the state. The report is accompanied by a new web tool at www.TexasTransparency.org which allows citizens to use interactive maps to see all of the property and sales taxing entities in their county, as well as the rates at which they are being taxed.
According to the report, the number of special purpose taxing districts that are being created is growing every year across the state, which is making it increasingly difficult for citizens to keep track of which entities