3 Reasons Houston Chronicle Editorial Calls for Special Session Commercial Appraisal Reform.

Houston Chronicle Editorial, Dark stores: Big box retailers’ strategy to cut property appraisals will harm local communities, supports adding commercial property appraisal refrom to the special session:

  • Texas should learn from Michigan where dark store property tax reductions harmed revenues
  • the current Comptroller estimate of local government revenue loss is  $2.9 billion
  • Its not only Big Box retailers using dark store arguments to reduce property taxes, it is other businesses too