Property taxes can be lowered by keeping bees

  • Safely handling bees can help lower your property taxes as well as being a fun family activity and providing honey for your table. COURTESY PHOTO
    Safely handling bees can help lower your property taxes as well as being a fun family activity and providing honey for your table. COURTESY PHOTO
Property taxes on small acreages can now be lowered by keeping bees on the property. Texas law allows bees and bee hives to qualify for reducing property taxes on plots ranging from 5 to 20 acres similar to livestock or raising hay. Dennis Herbert drafted the original legislation for the current bee law that allows small acreage land owners to receive their agricultural valuation if they wish to…

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