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Renard Johnson: “The city portion of your taxes has not gone up. In fact, it…”

Featuring: Renard Johnson, Mayor of El Paso | Texas

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Full Interview: El Paso Mayor Renard Johnson talks growth, taxes and future

Published | Video Starts at 08:31

And the only way you can get at lowering your taxes is you have to bring in more of a commercial base to offset the residential tax base. If you look at The city portion of your taxes has not gone up. In fact, it was one of the lowest numbers last year in the last seven to 10 years. So the city portion has remained relatively flat. What's been going up, as you mentioned, is the, your home values have increased, and that is something the central appraisal district does. (08:31–08:44)

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Asserts that the city portion of taxes has remained flat and was one of the lowest in recent years.

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