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General Fund
Tax Office

www.mcallen.net/departments/tax

Mission Department Summary
Statement: Actual Adj. Budget Estimated Budget
To assess and collect Expenditure Detail: 18-19 19-20 19-20 20-21
the property tax that Personnel Services
is due to the City of Salaries and Wages $ 217,567 $ 224,432 $ 224,432 $ 237,808
McAllen according to Employee Benefits 59,955 67,069 67,069 72,017
current year Property Supplies 6,031 7,000 7,000 8,000
Values and all other Other Services and Charges 812,065 856,341 856,341 895,947
taxes that may be due. Maintenance 29,829 25,800 25,800 29,307

Operations Subtotal 1,125,448 1,180,642 1,180,642 1,243,079
Capital Outlay 525 - - -
Total Expenditures $ 1,125,973 $ 1,180,642 $ 1,180,642 $ 1,243,079
PERSONNEL
Exempt 1 1 1 1
Non-Exempt 5 5 5 5
Part-Time - 1 - 1
Total Positions Authorized 6 7 6 7

Contact Us: MAJOR FY 20-21 GOALS
Rebecca Grimes 1) Continue working with Tax Attorneys to clean up our Delinquent Tax Roll by removing accounts due to Statutes of
Tax Assessor-Collector Limitations.
311 N. 15th Street
McAllen, TX 78501 2) Allow Staff who are not registered with TDLR to receive additional education provided by HCAD.
(956) 681-1330 3) Work with Management to possibly waive the Convenience Fee when paying with an echeck.

Description: Performance Measures
The tax office has two Actual Goal Estimated Goal
separate functions: FY 18-19 FY 19-20 FY 19-20 FY 20-21
Assessing - Applying Inputs:
the current tax rate to
the certified values Full Time Employees 6 6 6 6
from the Appraisal Department Expenditures $ 1,125,973 $ 1,180,642 $ 1,180,642 $ 1,243,079
District to calculate Outputs:
the current year levy. Revenues generated:
This levy is what the Current Tax Collections $ 40,882,073 $ 42,164,938 $ 42,539,400 $ 43,886,277
City Commission
approves during our Delinquent Tax Collections $ 1,109,953 $ 1,080,000 $ 1,013,164 $ 1,080,000
budget process. Tax Paid Due to Tax Suits $ 373,834 $ 275,000 $ 264,200 $ 275,000
Collections - Tax Levy $ 42,091,053 $ 43,469,008 $ 44,311,875 $ 45,714,872
Collecting the levy Tax Accounts 56,747 57,264 56,942 57,402
calculated for the
current year and any Effectiveness Measures:
delinquent taxes still Collection rate of current taxes 97% 98% 96% 97%
on the tax roll. The Dept expenditures as a % of tax levy 2.68% 2.72% 2.66% 2.72%
Tax Office is in the Efficiency Measures:
process of obtaining
preliminary values Accts handled per full time employee 14,539 14,316 14,685 14,700
from the Hidalgo Collections per full time employee $ 6,998,671 $ 7,207,490 $ 7,258,761 $ 7,494,380
County Appraisal Department expenditures per capita $ 7.55 $ 7.77 $ 7.80 $ 8.10
District to begin the
collection process for
the new tax year.

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