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Tax Information
Property Tax Rate General Information
Tax Rate Adoption
The ESD No. 2 as a tax-collecting entity is required to set a yearly ad valorem tax rate on all property within the area of the ESD No. 2. It is through this tax collection that the ESD No. 2 funds its operations. The tax rate must be adopted by the Board of Commissioners no later than September 30th of each year. The ESD No. 2 posts and/or publishes notices to the public as required by law of any proposed tax rate, public hearings, and meetings regarding the tax rate.
Tax Rate Adoption
The ESD No. 2 as a tax-collecting entity is required to set a yearly ad valorem tax rate on all property within the area of the ESD No. 2. It is through this tax collection that the ESD No. 2 funds its operations. The tax rate must be adopted by the Board of Commissioners no later than September 30th of each year. The ESD No. 2 posts and/or publishes notices to the public as required by law of any proposed tax rate, public hearings, and meetings regarding the tax rate.
Tax Rate
In general, emergency service districts created under current law in the State of Texas can adopt a maximum tax cap of $0.10 per every $100 of property value at the tike of their creation. In addition, in some counties, the emergency services districts also collect a sales tax.
The ESD No. 2 does not collect a sales tax. In addition, because the ESD No. 2 was originally created by the voters as a "Rural Fire Prevention Districts" operating under constitutional provisions existing at the time and was later converted by the Texas Legislature into an "Emergency Service District", the ESD No. 2's tax rate is capped at a maximum of $0.03. That was the cap at which rural fire prevention districts operated under before they were converted by the Legislature. Accordingly, unless approved by the voters through a tax rate election, the ESD No. 2 is capped to operating with a maximum tax rate of $0.03 while other ESDs created under current law can operate with a maximum cap of $0.10 per $100 of property valuation. In keeping with its mission of being good fiduciary stewards of tax dollars, the ESD No. 2 Board of Commissioners has not only been able to meet the entity's mission but has also at the same time steadily maintained the tax rate substantially below the cap.
Hidalgo County Tax Office
The Hidalgo County Tax Office collects property taxes on behalf of the ESD No.2. To learn more tax rate information from the Hidalgo County Tax Office you can click on the button below.
Hidalgo County Appraisal District
The Hidalgo County Appraisal District provides the property valuations on property within the area of the ESD No. 2 that are used to calculate the amount of taxes paid on your property. To learn more about the Hidalgo County Appraisal District you can click on the button below.
Delinquent Tax Collection
The Hidalgo County Tax Office contracts with the Law Offices of Linebarger, Gogan, Blair & Sampson, LLP for the collection of delinquent taxes owed to the ESD No. 2. To learn more about the delinquent tax collection attorneys you can click on the button below.
Tax Rate Work Sheets and Notices about Tax Rate
Below are the tax rate worksheets used to calculate No New Revenue Tax Rates and Voter Approval Tax Rates and, Form 50-212 "Notice about Tax Rates" forms by year
Notices of Tax Rate Hearings, Proposed Tax Rates, & Meetings
2024 NOTICE
NOTICE OF MEETING TO VOTE
ON TAX RATE
A tax rate of $0.0074 per $100 valuation has been proposed by the governing body of Hidalgo County
Emergency Service District No. 2.
PROPOSED TAX RATE $0.0074 per $100
NO-NEW-REVENUE TAX RATE $0.0074 per $100
VOTER-APPROVAL TAX RATE $0.0081 per $100
The no-new-revenue tax rate is the tax rate for the 2024 tax year that will raise the same amount of property tax revenue for Hidalgo County Emergency Service District No. 2 from the same properties in both the 2023 tax year and the 2024 tax year.
The voter-approval rate is the highest tax rate that Hidalgo County Emergency Service District No. 2 may adopt without holding an election to seek voter approval of the rate.
The proposed tax rate is not greater than the no-new-revenue tax rate. This means that Hidalgo County Emergency Service District No. 2 is not proposing to increase property taxes for the 2024 tax year.
A PUBLIC MEETING TO VOTE ON THE PROPOSED TAX RATE WILL BE HELD ON September 12, 2024 AT 6:00 PM AT 800 E. Davis Road, Edinburg, Texas.
The proposed tax rate is also not greater than the voter-approval tax rate. As a result, Hidalgo County Emergency Service District No. 2 is not required to hold an election to seek voter approval of the rate. However, you may express your support for or opposition to the proposed tax rate by contacting the members of the Board of Hidalgo County Emergency Service District No. 2 at their offices or by attending the public meeting mentioned above.
YOUR TAXES OWED UNDER ANY OF THE RATES MENTIONED ABOVE CAN BE CALCULATED AS FOLLOWS:
Property tax amount= (tax rate) x (taxable value of your property)/100
FOR the proposal: Luis Flores Travis Richards
Patrick Eronini Gail Fisher
Ramiro Rodriguez
AGAINST the proposal: N/A
PRESENT and not voting: N/A
ABSENT: N/A
Visit Texas.gov/PropertyTaxes to find a link to your local property tax database on which you can easily access information regarding your property taxes, including information about proposed tax rates and scheduled public hearings of each entity that taxes your property.
The 86th Texas Legislature modified the manner in which the voter-approval tax rate is calculated to limit the rate of growth of property taxes in the state. The following table compares the taxes imposed on the average residence homestead by Hidalgo County Emergency Service District No. 2 last year to the taxes proposed to be imposed on the average residence homestead by Hidalgo County Emergency Service District No. 2 this year.
2023 2024 Change
Total tax rate (per $100 of value) $0.0154 $0.0074 decrease of
-0.0080 per $100,
or -51.95%
Average homestead taxable value $143,119 $207,457 increase of 44.95%
Tax on average homestead $22.04 $15.35 decrease of -6.69,
or -30.35%
Total tax levy on all properties $515,815 $526,262 increase of
10,467, or 2.03%
For assistance with tax calculations, please contact the tax assessor for Hidalgo County Emergency
Service District No. 2 at (956) 318-2157 or propertytax@hidalgocountytax.org, or visit
www.hidalgocountytax.org for more information.
NOTICE OF ADOPTED TAX RATE
A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE HIDALGO COUNTY EMERGENCY SERVICES DISTRICT NUMBER 2 TO ADOPT THE TAX RATE FOR 2024.
WHEREAS, The Hidalgo County Emergency Services District Number 2 is a Political Subdivision established by the state statues of the State of Texas and;
WHEREAS, The Hidalgo County Emergency Services District Number 2 is authorized to levy and collect an Ad Valorem Tax on all Real and Personal Property within its jurisdiction pursuant to such statues and;
WHEREAS, This year's levy to fund maintenance and operations expenditures exceeds last year's maintenance and operations tax levy;
WHEREAS, THIS TAX RATE WILL RAISE MORE TAXES FOR MAINTENANCE AND OPERATIONS THAN LAST YEAR'S TAX RATE,
THE TAX RATE WILL EFFECTIVELY BE RAISED BY 0.68 PERCENT AND WILL INCREASE TAXES FOR MAINTENANCE AND OPERATIONS ON A $100,000.00 НОМЕ BY APPROXIMATELY -$2.40.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Hidalgo County Services District Number 2 that:
A. THE TAX RATE OF $0.0296 PER $100.00 VALUATION FOR 2024 IS ADOPTED.
PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED on this 10th day of September 2024.
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