Tarrant County taxpayers are due a surprise windfall of more than $12 million in property tax refunds because of what some officials believe were software errors and delays.
This sudden news has left tax officials scrambling, since it comes at the end of a tax year, a time the county isn’t flush with tax dollars.
The only way officials can find the money to process these refunds is to stop planned tax payments to all entities in the county — cities, school districts and even the county — according to a letter recently sent out by Tarrant County Tax Assessor-Collector Ron Wright.
“It is the first time in the history of Tarrant County that a tax assessor has had to turn off the spigot,” Wright said. “It was hard to do, but it’s necessary.”
Many questions remain, including, who gets the refunds and what you have to do to be sure you get what you’re owed.
