Texas Voters Approve Major Tax Changes in 2025 Election: What It Means for Residents

S.7, Texas—Corporate Income, Property Taxes: Voters Approve Tax Changes

Nov. 7, 2025

TX  Property, Corporate Income

In a statewide election held November 4, 2025, Texas voters approved several constitutional amendments making changes to the state's tax laws. Several of these amendments are aimed at lowering property taxes for specific groups:

• Proposition 7 (HJR 133): This amendment provides a property tax residence homestead exemption for the surviving spouses of veterans who died as a result of a service-connection condition or disease.

• Proposition 9 (HJR 1): This amendment increases the amount of a business's tangible personal property that is exempt from the property tax on business tangible personal property to $125,000.

• Proposition 10 (SJR 84): This amendment creates a temporary homestead exemption from property tax for property owners whose residences are destroyed by fire.

• Proposition 11 (SJR 85): This amendment increases the amount of the additional residence homestead exemption from property tax for senior citizens and disabled people to $60,000.

• Proposition 13 (SJR 2): This amendment increases the amount of the residence homestead exemption from property tax to $140,000.

• Proposition 17 (HJR 34): This amendment creates an exemption from property tax for improvements related to border security on property located along the Texas-Mexico border.