Texas Comptroller County Tax Assessor-Collector Directory Retrieval Provenance Worksheet

Direct answer for mineral owners

Use one blank worksheet for one manual attempt through the official Texas Comptroller county index and one county page. Preserve only the Tax Assessor/Collector section: exact routes, county code/name, access time, displayed update, contact, address, collecting-unit, and taxing-unit labels, retained pointer, limitation, and located, not located, or unverified. Do not copy appraisal-district fields or infer collecting responsibility, tax status, ownership, minerals, value, or legal effect.

Key takeaways for mineral owners

• Use one worksheet ID for one official index route, one selected county page, and one manual retrieval attempt.
• Preserve only the Tax Assessor/Collector section and its exact displayed labels.
• Keep completed worksheets, screenshots, contact values, and retained evidence in an authorized controlled system.
• Treat located, not located, and unverified as attempt-level observations, not office, tax, or property conclusions.
• Stop before local record search, contact, submission, login, payment, CAPTCHA, bypass, scraping, or bulk collection.
• Keep appraisal-district directory retrieval in the separate Article 217 worksheet.

Tax-office-directory-only boundary. This blank worksheet documents one authorized manual attempt through the official Texas Comptroller county directory and one selected county page. Preserve only the source-displayed Tax Assessor/Collector section. A displayed entry does not establish identity, authenticity, completeness, currency, certification, collecting responsibility, jurisdiction, service scope, property connection, tax status, title, ownership, mineral connection, value, or legal effect. Keep completed worksheets, screenshots, contact values, and retained evidence in an authorized controlled system. MRX provides educational information and resources only and does not buy mineral rights.

A Texas county tax assessor collector directory retrieval can preserve where a county tax-office contact entry came from without turning it into a tax or property record. The worksheet records one official route, one selected county page, the labels displayed during one access event, and what prevented a bounded result.

This is not the appraisal-district worksheet. The same Comptroller county page can contain both sections, but each has a different heading, field set, and stated role. Use the appraisal-district directory retrieval worksheet for that separate section. Do not merge the two records.

Direct answer for mineral owners

Create one worksheet ID for one authorized manual attempt. Open the Texas Comptroller Local Property Appraisal and Tax Information directory, select one source-displayed county code and name, and preserve the official county-page route.

Within that page, locate only the Tax Assessor/Collector section. Record the access timestamp and timezone; exact section and Last Updated labels; displayed tax-assessor/collector, phone, fax, email, website, mailing-address, and street-address labels; the exact Collecting Unit statement; Consolidated Taxing Units Served codes and names when shown; a controlled retained-evidence pointer; a source limitation; and one outcome: located, not located, or unverified.

Stop there. Do not copy the Appraisal District section, follow the local website into a record search, contact an office, submit a form, sign in, purchase, bypass, scrape, or interpret tax, title, ownership, mineral, value, or transaction questions.

Keep the two directory sections separate

The Comptroller index distinguishes local appraisal questions from county tax-office questions. It says county tax assessor-collector offices can answer questions for the taxing units they serve about payment options, tax bills, tax certificates, tax rates, tax receipts, and other payment-related information.

That statement describes office-question categories. It does not decide which office serves a particular property or whether the directory entry is current. This worksheet preserves the directory trail only; it does not contact the office or ask any of those questions.

Do not copy these Article 217 fields into this worksheet:

• chief appraiser;
• taxpayer liaison;
• appraisal-district contact values;
• appraisal-district active-taxing-unit list; or
• any appraisal-district conclusion.

Do not copy the tax-assessor/collector section into Article 217. Shared county-page provenance does not make the two source sections interchangeable.

Keep every reusable field blank

• Worksheet ID: [controlled attempt ID]
• Official directory index: [exact HTTPS URL]
• Selected county code and name: [exact source display]
• Official county-page route: [exact HTTPS URL reached]
• Access timestamp and timezone: [authorized manual access time]
• Tax Assessor/Collector section label: [exact source display]
• Last-updated label: [exact source display or not stated]
• Tax-assessor/collector label: [exact source display or not stated]
• Phone, fax, email, and website labels: [exact source display]
• Mailing-address label: [exact source display or not stated]
• Street-address label: [exact source display or not stated]
• Collecting-unit statement: [exact source display]
• Consolidated-taxing-unit codes and names: [controlled retained record or not shown]
• Navigation or access state: [exact source display]
• Retained-evidence pointer: [authorized locator]
• Source limitation: [exact display, not stated, or unresolved]
• Controlled outcome: [located, not located, or unverified]
• Authorized-human handoff: [role and bounded question]

The bracketed phrases are labels, not example values. Do not put a real or fictional officeholder, contact value, address, collecting unit, taxing unit, owner, heir, estate, property, mineral interest, tax amount, offer, result, or conclusion into the reusable public worksheet or images.

Result limitation: keep this beside the outcome. A displayed entry proves only that the recorded official page displayed the bounded tax-assessor/collector section during the recorded access event. It does not establish accuracy, completeness, currentness, identity, officeholder status, collecting responsibility, jurisdiction, property service, tax status, title, ownership, mineral connection, value, or legal effect.

Preserve collecting-unit language exactly

The official Montgomery County directory page demonstrates a Tax Assessor/Collector section with contact and address fields, a Collecting Unit label, and Consolidated Taxing Units Served codes and names. Those source-displayed fields validate the worksheet structure.

Another official page can display a different collecting-unit statement. The Austin County directory page, for example, states that the tax office does not collect property taxes and points users toward the appraisal district for possible collection information.

Preserve either statement exactly. Do not convert a county name into collects all county taxes, treat a consolidated list as complete for every later purpose, or infer collecting responsibility from a link, address, office title, or the appraisal-district section.

Preserve three controlled outcomes

Use only these outcomes:

• Located: the official selected-county page displayed the bounded Tax Assessor/Collector section during the documented attempt.
• Not located: the recorded official page did not display that bounded section during the attempt.
• Unverified: route identity, essential labels, access state, evidence retention, or another limitation prevented either bounded observation.

Do not convert located into current officeholder, correct collector, serves this tract, collects this tax, tax is due, tax is paid, or tax record is valid.

Do not convert not located into no tax office, no collector, no taxing unit, no tax record, no property, or no mineral interest. One page, section label, route, or access event may be incomplete or unavailable.

Stop before local records or contact

The directory can display a local website, email, phone number, and office address. Those are source fields, not an instruction to act. Preserve them in the controlled record without opening a local search or initiating contact under this workflow.

Do not use this worksheet to:

• search by owner, heir, estate, address, parcel, account, legal description, or tax identifier;
• retrieve a bill, certificate, rate, receipt, delinquency, payment, protest, exemption, or appraisal record;
• decide which office collects for a property or taxing unit;
• call, email, mail, visit, or submit a form;
• create an account, sign in, or verify identity;
• pay a tax, fee, document charge, or access charge;
• bypass a CAPTCHA, rate limit, access control, or terms;
• scrape or bulk collect directory or local records; or
• infer title, ownership, heirship, mineral connection, value, offer quality, or transaction readiness.

If the task changes from preserving the directory entry to searching records or contacting an office, close this worksheet and create a separately authorized workflow with its own purpose, access, privacy, evidence, and human-review rules.

Keep contact values and evidence controlled

The reusable public template needs no completed person name, office contact, phone, email, website, address, collecting unit, taxing-unit list, screenshot, tax record, property identifier, estate detail, mineral description, amount, offer, signature, or result.

Use one controlled retained-evidence pointer for the official page capture or note. Do not publish a directory capture as proof that a person, office, property, tax status, or mineral interest has been verified.

If an authorized reviewer later needs to confirm a contact, determine collecting responsibility, or search a local tax system, that action requires a separate record. This worksheet ends before contact, submission, or local-system access.

Keep tax and mineral conclusions separate

A tax-assessor/collector directory entry does not identify a mineral owner, explain a tax value, prove a payment, establish a tax status, allocate title, connect an estate to a tract, model production, calculate present value, or evaluate an offer.

Use why a Texas mineral tax value may not match a sale estimate for educational context about different valuation purposes. Use the retained evidence source-scope worksheet for an artifact already retained. This article owns only the earlier tax-office directory provenance job.

Do not use the outcome to decide who owns mineral rights, whether a tax record is correct, whether title is clear, whether an offer is fair, or whether a transaction should proceed.

Stop at authorized-human review

Close the worksheet with the controlled outcome, limitation, unresolved question, and next authorized role. Do not answer the later question inside this retrieval record.

Questions about collecting responsibility, local tax records, bills, certificates, rates, receipts, payments, exemptions, protests, office contact, tax interpretation, title, ownership, heirship, mineral connection, valuation, or transaction conduct require the applicable local office, qualified Texas tax or legal counsel, a title professional, or another appropriately qualified reviewer.

This worksheet documents one manual official-directory retrieval attempt. It does not provide legal, probate, tax, title, appraisal, valuation, investment, financial, identity-verification, offer, closing, or transaction advice.

Frequently asked questions

Does the directory prove that the county office collects a specific tax?

No. Preserve the collecting-unit statement and displayed taxing-unit labels exactly. Determining responsibility for a particular property or tax requires separate source evidence and qualified review.

Can a displayed taxing-unit code be connected to my mineral interest?

Not in this workflow. Preserve the code and name only as directory fields. A property or mineral connection requires separate records and review.

What if a contact field is blank?

Record it as blank or not stated. Do not fill the gap from memory, a search result, a local site, the appraisal-district section, or another county page.

What if the source page changes later?

Use a new worksheet version or ID. Preserve both access times, routes, displayed labels, retained pointers, and limitations without declaring which version is controlling.

Can I use the local website linked from the tax-office section?

The link can be preserved as a displayed field. Opening it for a record search, payment, contact, login, or submission is outside this worksheet and requires a separate authorized workflow.

Sources reviewed for this article

• Texas Comptroller: Local Property Appraisal and Tax Information county directory
• Texas Comptroller: Montgomery County directory page
• Texas Comptroller: Austin County directory page

Frequently asked questions

Does a located tax-assessor/collector entry prove which office serves my property?

No. Located means only that the selected official county page displayed the bounded directory section during the recorded attempt. Do not infer property service, collecting responsibility, jurisdiction, tax status, ownership, or mineral connection.

Does the Last Updated label prove every contact field is current?

No. Preserve the label exactly as displayed. It is not a guarantee that every field is accurate, complete, verified, or current when someone later uses it.

Can this worksheet include the Appraisal District section?

No. Article 217 owns appraisal-district directory provenance. This worksheet must preserve only the separate Tax Assessor/Collector section.

Should the public template contain actual tax-office contact details?

No. Keep contact values, screenshots, completed worksheets, and retained evidence in an authorized controlled record. The reusable public template and images remain blank.

What if the route requires login, contact, payment, or CAPTCHA?

Record the access state and use unverified, then stop. This workflow does not authorize account creation, contact, submission, purchase, access bypass, scraping, or bulk collection.

Sources reviewed for this article

• Texas Comptroller, Local Property Appraisal and Tax Information county directory (accessed 2026-08-26)
• Texas Comptroller, Montgomery County directory page (accessed 2026-08-26)
• Texas Comptroller, Austin County directory page (accessed 2026-08-26)