The Comptroller of Public Accounts adopts an amendment to §9.4037, concerning use of electronic communications for transmittal of property tax information, to conform to Tax Code, §25.19(b-1), without changes to the proposed text as published in the April 21, 2006, issue of the Texas Register (31 TexReg 3362). The statute requires that the chief appraiser of each county appraisal district include in the notice of appraised value for real property, the difference, expressed as a percentage increase or decrease, in the appraised value of the property for the current year as compared to the fifth year before the current tax year.

The section is being amended in response to 79th Legislature, 2005, House Bill 1984, effective January 1, 2006. The law requires additional information to be included on notices of appraised value prepared by appraisal districts. Subsection (d)(1), the electronic XML document schema, is amended to include the percentage increase in value required to be included in the notices of appraised value.

No comments were received regarding adoption of the amendment.

The amendment is adopted under and implements Tax Code, §25.19(b-1) and §1.085(e).