Mayor Eugene Escobar Jr. holds an informal meeting to brief homeowners on efforts to resolve billing for delinquent city property taxes
Princeton officials are working to assist nearly 460 homeowners unexpectedly billed for delinquent city property taxes after it was discovered that several annexed subdivisions had never been added to the Collin Central Appraisal District (CCAD) tax roll.
The oversight, which dates as far back as 2016, has resulted in three years of back taxes being charged to current homeowners who had no involvement in the original error and in many cases had not even lived in Princeton during the affected years.
Residents are now facing tax bills, sudden increases in their mortgage escrows and, in some cases, fear of foreclosure.
Mayor Eugene Escobar Jr. said the problem surfaced last spring, when a resident told the City Council that although her home appeared inside the Princeton city limits on official maps, she was not being taxed by the city.
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