Maverick County Taxpayers file Tax Rollback Petition against Commisioners Court on 2016 Tax Rate

By: Miguel Munoz, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2016

Maverick County taxpayers filed 2,180 signatures by registered Maverick County voters with Sara Montemayor’s County Clerk Office on Thursday, December 22, 2016, at 3:09 p.m., petitioning Commissioners Court a tax rollback election concerning the adoption of the 2016 County Tax Rate of $0.542309 per $100 valuation of ad valorem property value because allegedly the County Tax-Assessor Collector Isamari S. Villarreal failed to take into consideration $3 Million in sales taxes collected in 2015 in calculating the 2016 County Tax Rate. Maverick County Deputy Clerk Leticia Cazares received the Taxpayers’ petition presented by Ethelvina I. Felan on behalf of the 2,180 registered voters.

The next step for the signed petition is for the Maverick County Elections Department under Roy Schmerber’s administration is to review and certify that the 2,180 signatures are registered Maverick County voters.  Maverick County Elections Office Deputy Clerk Mariana Flores advised the Taxpayers’ group that there are a total of 30,964 registered voters in Maverick County and that seven percent (7%) of these voters must have signed the tax rollback petition, that is, a total of 2,168 voters need to have signed it to cause a rollback election of the 2016 County Tax Rate adopted by Maverick County Commissioners Court.