Topic: Taxes

Your Weekly Briefing: Pay for test scores? And TRS pension bill moves forward as health insurance spikes for active employees

Publish Date: April 26, 2019

Ed Sills: The problems with a sales tax hike and why its getting blasted in the media

Publish Date: April 20, 2019

Your Weekly Briefing: Education bills moving that would regulate charters; harmful tax caps also in the works

Publish Date: April 19, 2019

A salary increase and funding our students needs to move back to the top of the lawmakers’ list!

Publish Date: February 21, 2019

Property tax cap bill moves toward full Senate without answers to key questions about loss of local funding

Publish Date: February 12, 2019

Sen. Juan "Chuy" Hinojosa questions SB 2 author Sen. Paul Bettencourt on why the tax cap should be as low as 2.5 percent. With no additional public testimony, the Senate Committee on Property Tax voted yesterday to advance a bill that will cripple local government budgets, including school districts. SB 2 would cap property tax revenue growth at 2.5 percent,...

As property tax cap hearing starts, the question remains: Where will the money come from?

Publish Date: February 6, 2019

Statement on Gov. Abbott’s State of the State speech

Publish Date: February 5, 2019

Property tax cap bills announced by state leadership, but how will this affect school finance?

Publish Date: January 31, 2019

Debate over charter-school ‘partnerships’ continues as TEA assumes role of cheerleader for controversial charter bill

Publish Date: August 28, 2018

Texas AFT office closed for the holidays, and the Hotline is on a break, but there’s one more “to-do item” on the list

Publish Date: December 15, 2017

One more chance to tell the U.S. Senate “NO” on a terrible tax plan

Publish Date: December 1, 2017

AFT members turn out to fight against GOP tax bill

Publish Date: November 30, 2017

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