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About Texas County Exemption Rules

Texas taxes qualifying open-space land on what it produces rather than what it would sell for, and the thresholds that decide whether a tract qualifies are set county by county. This connector answers those questions for every one of the 254 Texas counties: the minimum acreage for livestock, crops, and beekeeping, the hive schedules that scale with tract size, wildlife-management minimums including cooperative agreements, and the filing deadline that applies. It also returns the appraisal district behind each county — mailing and street address, phone, email, the chief appraiser where known, the online protest portal, and whether the district accepts filings by email. Alongside those rules sit the Comptroller productivity values per land class, which are the per-acre basis a qualifying tract is taxed on instead of market value, plus county and school district tax rates and the state Category codes that mark which land uses are open-space eligible. Every response states its own limits. Thresholds carry a verification flag, because 78 of the 254 counties have been reviewed against the district's published guidelines and the rest have not. Counties missing a livestock or wildlife minimum return null and name the gap rather than implying a zero. Productivity values distinguish figures a district published from figures derived by dividing a reported total. Tax rates carry their year so they are never mistaken for current ones. Qualification is ultimately determined by the county appraisal district under the Texas Property Tax Code, and the data is built to be checked against it, not to substitute for it.

⚠ Agricultural and wildlife thresholds are reviewed for 78 of 254 counties; every response reports provenance.verified so unreviewed rows are visible.

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