Subject: Taxes

• Max Wells Is Old

  April 13, 2007

• Hotels Not Taxing Dallas

  July 13, 2006

• Hotel Taxed

  June 27, 2006

• TIF for Tat, Part II

  June 26, 2006

• TIF for Tat

  June 21, 2006

• A Taxing Sports Equation

  June 21, 2006

• Forbes: Wright Ain't Right

  May 2, 2006

• Credit Risks

  March 28, 2006

• Should One Deduction Lead to Another?

  October 4, 2007

• Paying the Toll, One Road at a Time

  January 31, 2008

• Angela Hunt on DCAD's New Downtown Appraisals: Finally, a Level Playing Field

  May 2, 2008

• Statler, Deep Ellum and Crozier Tech Among Preservation Dallas' Endangered

  May 30, 2008

• No, Really, Will This Get Me Audited?

  June 24, 2008

• Road Rage

  Homeowners in a Denton County neighborhood wage battle against "taxation without representation"

  March 22, 2001

• The new voodoo

  January 5, 1995

• Giving History a Tax Break

  The Dallas City Council's Economic Development Committee opted to skip this morning's inauguration and actually hold a meeting, maybe because the committee has plenty on its plate -- including, after months of debate and discussion, the installation of streaming-video signs in downtown. There's another biggie on the table too: using federal tax credits to foster the development of "business and real estate developments in Low Income Neighborhoods" in Southern Dallas.This item also piqued my inte

  January 20, 2009

• I Had a Fake I.D. Once. Bought Beer With It. These Folks? A Little Busier With Theirs.

  Sixty-six-year-old Levander Carlton McLean and his wife Rita Murphy McLean, who's 21 years his junior, are gonna be spending a little time apart -- five years or so, give or take, thanks to U.S. District Judge Ed Kinkeade, who yesterday sentenced the Garland couple to federal prison for using fake driver's licenses, stolen W-2s and "130 false federal income tax returns" to pocket hundreds of thousands in ill-gotten gains. And, they had someone on the inside of the Texas Department of Public Safe

  January 23, 2009

• Get real

  December 4, 1997

• Bush's free ride

  October 29, 1998

• Easy pickings

  January 7, 1999

• Holy handouts

  January 21, 1999

• In the Cedars, Central Dallas Ministries Struggles to Find Support for Housing Project

  View Larger MapOn Tuesday, the Dallas City Council's Housing Committee discussed 13 projects seeking low-income housing tax credits, among them Akard Plaza, which is being developed by Central Dallas Ministries' 7-year-old affordable-housing subsidiary Central Dallas Community Development Corporation. Central Dallas CDC's seeking $2 million from the city for what's expected to be a $25-million development at 1011 S. Akard Street, site of the former Sheraton, Ramada and Plaza hotels -- and a buil

  February 20, 2009

• Nothing ventured

  June 3, 1999

• Bad break

  October 7, 1999

• Code-A-Doodle-Do

  December 18, 2008

• Wolf? What wolf?

  A humongous lawsuit knocks on the door at City Hall, and we're gonna end up paying--one way or the other

  June 15, 2000

• Judge 'Droid

  Wake him up and he votes

  August 30, 2007

• Sticker Shock

  Let's not have that Victory parade just yet

  June 29, 2006

• Enough Already

  Sometimes City Hall is generous to a fault

  June 8, 2006

• Sugar Ray

  Why council members love Mr. Hunt so much

  February 16, 2006

• Stacked Deck

  Giving penny-ante politicians a say over lucrative affordable-housing developments seemed like a good idea--until the FBI came calling

  January 26, 2006

• Drunk Tellers

  Run down to the City Council Bank. They're giving money away!

  December 15, 2005

• Down the Drain

  Plus: Stars in His Eyes; No Military, No Peace; The Havard Legend

  January 30, 2003

• Taxpayers, Arise!

  A little-known chapter of the city charter says we don't have to take it anymore

  July 11, 2002

• Cain't Say No

  Girls and boys of the city council get "in trouble"

  June 13, 2002

• Sweetheart Deal

  How does Virginia McGuire make a profit in the nonprofit business of creating affordable housing? Simple. She pays her husband.

  April 25, 2002

• The Thing That Ate Downtown

  Downtown’s real estate barons are terrified that Perot-Hicks’ slick Victory project could wreak havoc on their own tax-funded plans to fix the city’s core

  November 29, 2001

• Agin and Agin

  The next city election will separate the good aginners from the evildoers

  November 22, 2001

• The Little-People Tax

  Dallas tax appraisers can't keep up with Ross Perot. But if you're Average Joe, they've got your number.

  July 12, 2001

• Taxing Situation

  A tax-protesting CEO enlists his employees in the cause

  August 10, 2000

• Make 'em pay

  Dallas activists fight
  for a living wage from city contractors

  January 27, 2000

• Busted

  Even in these boom times, Dallas is broke, thanks to a city council that has been giving away the store

  September 2, 1999

• The new Civil War

  Tax breaks for corporations are about to tear us in half

  December 28, 1995

• Hutchison's Press Secretary on Perry's $9 Billion "Rainy Day" Claim: "It's Hypocrisy at Its Finest and Clearly Politically Motivated."

  Sam Merten​As mentioned earlier, Governor Rick Perry gave us the Heisman when we tried to get a response to his boasts this afternoon about balancing the state's budget and tucking away $9 billion for a "rainy day," conveniently leaving out that nearly all of that $9 billion and the dough used to solve the budget crisis was federal stimulus money. "It's hypocrisy at its finest and clearly politically motivated," says Jeff Sadosky, Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison's press secretary, of Perry'

  July 30, 2009

• Out of the Pool: City Council to Get a Detailed Look at Cuts to Park and Rec's Budget

  Click to expand City Manager Mary Suhm's list of proposed pool closings in the coming fiscal year​For those Friends of Unfair Park who haven't read through the entire FY2009-2010 proposed city of Dallas budget, the city council's biting off tiny pieces during regularly scheduled briefings in advance of the September 23 pass-by date. There's yet another budget workshop tomorrow morning at Dallas City Hall, during which the council will first tackle property tax rates. City Manager Mary Suhm is

  August 23, 2009

• National League of Cities: If You Think Dallas's '09-'10 Budget Looks Bad, Wait Till Next Year

  Sam MertenCity Manager Mary Suhm debuting her 2009-'10 budget to the media three weeks ago​On August 10, when the Dallas City Council met to discuss City Manager Mary Suhm's budget proposal that gut services and employees to make room for a $190-million budget shortfall, the city's chief financial officer, Dave Cook, warned that next year's process will be even more painful. He said that preliminary discussions with appraisal district officials indicated commercial property values would contin

  September 1, 2009

• Several Council Members Say That, You Know, a Teensy-Tiny Tax Hike Ain't a Bad Idea

  ​Speaking of the council and the budget and fees versus taxes ...As we mentioned yesterday, Tennell Atkins's budget amendment called for a 1-cent property tax increase -- which I didn't think would get terribly far, given council members, the mayor and the city manager's oft-repeated vows not to raise taxes despite the $190 million shortfall. But after Atkins made his presentation -- which, summed up, was, "It'll cost you $8 a year on a $100,000 house ... and I paid $9 to go to the movies" --

  September 16, 2009

• Haunted House, or: The Dead Occasionally Qualify for Property Tax Exemptions

  Flickr photo: numberstumper​Here's the latest report from Craig Kinton's office: Audit Report on Inappropriate Tax Exemptions and Delinquent Property Taxes, which the mayor and the Dallas City Council were given on Friday. But the short version: The City Auditor's Office went through the Dallas Central Appraisal District records and discovered that 35 property owners who've been dead since 2006 are still claiming property tax exemptions. Which seems like a low number, till you look at the amou

  October 5, 2009

• How Much Tax Revenue Does Dallas Stand to Make from the 2010 NBA All-Star Game?

  ​That's the question answered by this briefing that's been prepared for the city council's Economic Development Committee on Tuesday morning. The short answer: The 2010 NBA All-Star Game is expected to generate about $2.49 million in tax revenue for the city. But keep in mind, should the council give its OK at the end of this month, $1.73 million of that will come out of the city's contingency reserves and be deposited into something called a Major Events Trust Fund controlled by the Texas Com

  October 18, 2009

• Even Stephen Hawking Couldn't Figure Out the Fuzzy Math Behind How We Are Going To Pay For the Trinity River Park.

  November 12, 2009