{"id":1369,"date":"2026-11-07T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-07T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sundarsrealestategroup.com\/blog\/?p=1369"},"modified":"2026-11-07T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-11-07T09:00:00","slug":"texas-tax-ceilings-transfer-as-percentages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sundarsrealestategroup.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/07\/texas-tax-ceilings-transfer-as-percentages\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Tax Ceilings Transfer as Percentages"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-zmyer\">\n<div class=\"video-frame-zmyer\">\n        <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/www.roomvu.com\/agent\/embed\/sundar-sethuraman\/texas-retirees-tax-remotion-videos-75f6\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><br \/>\n        <\/iframe>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"video-description-zmyer\">\n<p>In 2026, qualifying Texas homeowners age 65+ or disabled get a $60K school exemption, added to the state&#039;s $140K general homestead exemption.<br \/>\nThe ceiling generally keeps school district taxes at the first qualifying year&#039;s level, even as appraisals change; other local taxes depend on separate adopted ceilings.<br \/>\nMoving within Texas transfers the benefit as a percentage, not the old dollar cap: a 25% prior ratio makes a new $6K school bill $1.5K.<br \/>\nA surviving spouse can keep the school tax ceiling if at least 55 when the owner died and the home remains that spouse&#039;s homestead.<br \/>\nBefore moving, contact both Texas appraisal districts, request the ceiling certificate, confirm homestead and age-65 qualification, and do not assume closing paperwork completed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2026, qualifying Texas homeowners age 65+ or disabled get a $60K school exemption, added to the state&#039;s $140K general homestead exemption. The ceiling generally keeps school district taxes at the first qualifying year&#039;s level, even as appraisals change; other local taxes depend on separate adopted ceilings. Moving within Texas transfers the benefit as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":503,"featured_media":1370,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sundarsrealestategroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sundarsrealestategroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sundarsrealestategroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sundarsrealestategroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/503"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sundarsrealestategroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1369"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sundarsrealestategroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1419,"href":"https:\/\/www.sundarsrealestategroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1369\/revisions\/1419"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sundarsrealestategroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sundarsrealestategroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sundarsrealestategroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sundarsrealestategroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}