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Taylor County tax suits, year by year

During FY2025 (September 2024 through August 2025) Taylor County district courts opened 281 delinquent-tax cases and resolved 311. When the year closed, 444 were still pending.

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Reading the trend

Filings have been remarkably steady in Taylor County: 4,290 tax cases over fifteen fiscal years, between 234 (FY2012) and 334 (FY2024), averaging 286. What moved was the backlog. Pending cases rose from 262 at the end of FY2013 to 472 at the end of FY2024, the highest in the series, before easing to 444 in FY2025 when dispositions (311) finally outpaced filings (281).

Tax cases are about a third of the civil caseload: 34.8% of new civil filings in FY2025 (281 of 808), compared with a fifteen-year average of 31.5%. Of the FY2025 dispositions, 145 ended in a judgment after a bench trial and 155 were non-suited or dismissed by the plaintiff, which typically follows payment.

All fifteen years

FY (Sept–Aug)	Pending at start	New tax suits	Disposed	Judgment after bench trial	Non-suited / dismissed by plaintiff	Pending at year end	All civil filings	Tax share of civil
2,011	310	260	265	29	1	305	899	28.9%
2,012	305	234	271	74	14	269	766	30.5%
2,013	269	260	267	61	82	262	849	30.6%
2,014	262	331	273	48	77	320	887	37.3%
2,015	320	235	278	107	82	277	1,037	22.7%
2,016	277	315	259	153	75	333	1,096	28.7%
2,017	333	311	265	193	53	379	936	33.2%
2,018	379	273	310	216	77	342	1,023	26.7%
2,019	342	324	278	203	67	391	1,077	30.1%
2,020	391	316	289	206	75	419	913	34.6%
2,021	419	245	278	208	70	390	848	28.9%
2,022	390	247	300	158	140	338	801	30.8%
2,023	338	324	287	185	76	378	865	37.5%
2,024	378	334	240	165	75	472	896	37.3%
2,025	472	281	311	145	155	444	808	34.8%

Where the figures come from

We ran the Texas Office of Court Administration's “District Court Activity Detail” report for Taylor County once for each fiscal year from FY2011 to FY2025 and saved the Excel output on October 12, 2026. In the civil part of each report, the “Tax” column supplies every tax figure here: active cases at the start and end of the year, new filings, total dispositions, judgments after a non-jury trial, and cases non-suited or dismissed by the plaintiff. The all-civil count is the report's Total column for new filings, and the percentage is our own calculation.

No numbers were estimated or adjusted. A blank in the source would have stayed blank; none occurred for Taylor County.

Before you quote it

District courts only. Suits filed in other courts are not counted.
Counts are cases, not parcels or households.
OCA may record corrections by adjusting a year's opening pending count.
Source data can be amended by the clerk after our export date.

Reuse is welcome with the credit line “Texas Office of Court Administration; compiled by Abilene Tax Resolution.” For what a suit means for an owner, see Taylor County tax sales and delinquency; printable versions are on print and share.

Primary sources: Texas OCA Court Activity Reporting; Texas Tax Code Chapter 33; Chapter 34.