Money & Your Home

Texas has no state income tax, so the only return most residents file is the federal one. That is genuinely...

A Texan who never thinks about taxes still pays plenty of them behind the wheel. There is the sales tax...

Every August, for one weekend, Texas turns off the sales tax on a long list of back-to-school basics. For a...

Ask most newcomers why they moved to Texas and "no state income tax" lands somewhere near the top of the...

When a Texas summer pushes a fixed-income household's electricity bill past what the budget can absorb, the instinct is often...

By July, the air conditioner is the single biggest line on most Texas electricity bills, and it stays that way...

A Texas family that cut the cable cord a few years ago to save money often finds the savings quietly...

For a few years, a federal benefit took $30 off the monthly internet bill for tens of millions of households...

Two Texas families use almost exactly the same amount of water each month. One lives in a big-city neighborhood, the...

In February 2021, Winter Storm Uri pushed the Texas grid to the edge of total collapse. For several days, millions...