FRIENDSWOOD SALES TAX ALLOCATION
WHERE DO SALES TAX DOLLARS GO?
State gives city its allocated portion
$788,030 $865,940 10% increase
March 2019 March 2020
Customer spends money at a business
While Pearland saw a slight decrease in sales tax allocations for March year-over-year, and Friendswood saw a slight increase, both cities saw an increase compared to February data.
PEARLAND SALES TAX ALLOCATION
Business sends money from sales tax to the state
$2.94M $2.83M 4% decrease
March 2019 March 2020
SOURCE: TEXAS COMPTROLLER / COMMUNITY IMPACT NEWSPAPER
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as many will be successful, she said. “Based on the values I have already seen, I think we are going to have a huge uptick because people are home, and they are going to start calling. They are paying attention, and they are hurting fi nancially right now,” she said. Manvel resident and real estate agent April Bradshaw said she pro- tests her property values every year, and this year is no exception. “What I tell all of my clients and friends is that it is your civic duty to
protest every year,” she said. InApril, state Sen. Paul Bettencourt, R - Houston, requested the disaster tax exemption be applied to proper- ties that have su ff ered an economic loss rather than a physical one. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton ruled the disaster exemption applies only to physical damage, meaning those who are a ff ected fi nancially by the virus are unlikely to be able to lower their property valuations because of it. “A lot of peoplehave been impacted. I think that word just hasn’t gotten to
the right people yet,” Bradshaw said. Brazoria County Chief Appraiser Cheryl Evans said she is sympathetic, as values were submitted before the virus hit. “We are very sympathetic but by law this is our job,” Evans said. “We just hate that this pandemic came in March.” Budget planning Friendswood and Pearland are both in the process of planning their bud- gets for next year. A budget may have
this year are a re fl ection January’s values, they will be una ff ected by the coronavirus, Galveston County Tax-Assessor Collector Cheryl John- son said. While values are up this year, John- son said she is unsure of what values will be in the long run. During Hurricane Harvey, citizens were able to protest their property values successfully in most cases. While Johnson expects more people to protest this year, she does not think
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