Nueces County Tax Assessor/Collector Kevin Kieschnick said it can get pretty confusing. "It makes it look like you're receiving money that you're not getting," he said.

Nueces County tax assessor-collector Kevin Kieschnick has reservations about the electoral positions, saying that while Senate bill 2 was tied into the proposition on property tax relief, the ...

Nueces County Tax Assessor/Collector Kevin Kieschnick said it can get pretty confusing. "It makes it look like you're receiving money that you're not getting," he said.

Under property tax reforms that passed last November, a new state law requires an appraisal district in a county with a population of 75,000 or more people to have a board of nine directors.

The new tax rate is about 26.5 cents per $100 valuation, an increase of about 1.5 cents from the current rate. Many property owners without exemptions will pay higher taxes to Nueces County.

They can pay with a credit or debit card. There is a small fee for the merchant process on that, but the E-Check is free," said Kevin Kieschnick, Nueces County Tax Assessor-Collector.

Also approved Wednesday was an incremental increase in property taxes for the Nueces County Hospital District, from about 0.09 cent per $100 to about 1 cent per $100, documents show.