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Bettencourt Tax Facts Mailer
How can Spring Branch Independent School District pay back a $597,150,000 bond issue? By increasing your taxes.
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Proposed Texas Constitutional Amendments On November Ballot
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Time to End Robin-Hood
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Bettencourt has checked the numbers
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Paul Bettencourt's Goals

Tax Office Goals - Over Time:

Implement Deloitte, Touche, LLP. study in 2001 recommendations covering the following operational areas:

Accounting system
Tax system
Voter Registration database
Office facilities
etax payments

Deloitte & Touche main comment is "Harris County Tax Assessor-Collector's Office is on track to becoming a high-performing organization." By 2008, the Tax Office now handles 7.5 Million Database Accounts in all areas and 5 Billion Dollars in Revenue.

Opened a relocated Tax Office Distribution Center in 2008 for records retention and Automotive Dealer Packages 

The Tax Office has accepted Vehicle Registration renewals via the Internet and Property Tax payments by credit cards since 2000, and has collected 540 Million Dollars via E-Government since that time.

Continue added new taxing jurisdictions to the combined County Proerty Tax Bill for customer convience cost reduction


Tax Office Goals - Future:

To continue to strive to be the best Tax Assessor-Collector Office in the U.S. 

To ask the Legislature for the authority to mail tax bills on-line via the internet

Continue to enhance partnerships with Harris County Appraisal District, other taxing units, and taxpayers

Continue to streamline workload with user-friendly information technology and customer service training

Continue to improve customer service and reduce costs for all of the taxpayers of Harris County



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