CPA Sugar Land AlternativeThe adopted 2026 rate

The rate the city adopted for 2026.

For the 2026 tax year the City of Sugar Land adopted 0.371116 per 100 dollars of taxable value. The no-new-revenue rate was 0.355381. The voter-approval rate was 0.381586. The adopted rate is above the no-new-revenue rate and below the voter-approval rate. The split inside the adopted rate is 0.220157 for maintenance and operations and 0.150959 for debt service.

The year before, the total was 0.358827. The year before that, 0.353210. The city also says it has brought the rate down from 50 cents to the mid 30s since 1993 and counts itself among lower-rate cities in Texas. All of that is on the city's property tax page. None of it is your invoice.

A rate is not an appraisal. If the taxable value rose and the rate also sits above the no-new-revenue rate, the bill can move for two reasons. This page names the rate. The next page names the double move. We still do not multiply the rate by a value we have not seen.

Where the rate enters the books.

The city line belongs in the month the tax is incurred, in the amount the bill supports, against the address the bill names. A monthly accrual that uses last year's rate will drift. A single entry in December that guesses will drift faster. We would rather book what the notice says.

Voters changed the city from a mayor-council form to a council-manager form in August 1986. Every Texan can appreciate a town that rewrote its own charter on a summer ballot. We share that civic habit with you. The rate you pay is still the one the current council adopted, not the one a charter story implies.

Maintenance, debt, and the number on your notice.

The adopted rate is not one purpose. Part of it, 0.220157 per 100 dollars, is maintenance and operations. Part of it, 0.150959, is debt service. A reader who argues with the whole rate may be arguing with a bond payment that a maintenance cut would not touch. We name both parts so the argument, if you want one, is aimed at the part that can move.

No-new-revenue is the rate that would have raised about the same total as last year on this year's values. Sitting above it means the city chose to collect more than that marker. Sitting below the voter-approval rate means the adopted figure did not cross that other marker. Those are descriptions of a published choice. They are not a forecast of your bill, because your taxable value is still your own.

Last year's total was 0.358827, and the year before that was 0.353210. A chart of rates going down can sit next to a bill that went up, when the appraisal rose faster than the rate fell. That is why this page refuses to stop at the rate. The notice has a value on it. The value is the other half of the multiplication, and we do not invent it.

On the books, we would rather book the amount the notice supports than accrue last year's rate and true it up in a panic. A monthly accrual is fine when it uses the rate and the value you actually have. A December guess is how the year looks smooth and the return has to explain a lump. If you accrue monthly, use the rate and the taxable value on the latest notice, and write the assumption next to the entry. When the notice changes, the true-up is one month, with a note, not a silent edit to every month you already closed. Lenders who saved the earlier statements will ask why they moved. A note answers that question. A quiet rewrite creates it.

If the notice prints a rate that is not 0.371116, do not force the council's adopted figure onto that bill. An exemption, a different taxing unit, or a supplemental notice can change what you owe without changing the rate the council adopted. The council's number explains the city. The notice explains the building.

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