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Taxes & Spending
Assessing Tax Trends in the City of El Paso
Does history suggest that property taxes are too high in the city of El Paso? And, if so, have local decision-makers actively helped or hurt the situation? To help answer these questions, let’s review the city’s 2024 Annual Comprehensive Financial Report (ACFR) and gather four types of data—i.e., tax levies, local population, total tax rates, and taxable values—over a 10-year time horizon. Using these audited estimates, we can gauge the growth of government (i.e., tax...
February 16, 2026