Your tax bill, explained

$870 a year — about $73 a month

On a market value of $150,000 — taxed on 20% of it, $30,000, as a homestead, in Huntsville · Huntsville #1 schools (49 mills). Taxes levied: $1,470, less the $600 homestead credit. An estimate from published rates — your own tax notice is the final word.

Arkansas taxes a home on 20% of its market value. Every homestead gets up to a $600 credit off the bill (Amendment 79); the state repays the local governments for it, so they still receive the full amount shown below.

Of every $100 you pay

Where it ends up — every government’s share, by what it pays for

Each government’s share is split by the mills it levies: the school district’s operating mills versus its bond (debt) mills, as the state lists them. City and county taxes are one slice each; the county’s spending is on the money trail.

Why there’s no “no-raise” rate here — Arkansas works differently

Florida and Texas publish a yearly “no-raise” rate. Arkansas doesn’t: its rates are set in mills, and after a countywide reassessment Amendment 59 rolls millage back so the reassessment alone doesn’t raise more money. School millage changes need a vote of the district’s voters at the school election — so the biggest lever on most Arkansas bills is a school election that usually draws far fewer voters than November.

County and city millage is levied by the quorum court and city council each fall; school millage is set by the district’s voters at the school election. Meetings are on the calendar.

Each government, line by line

What this doesn’t show — the honest limits

• Fees and assessments on the same bill — stormwater, trash, street lights and others — aren’t property taxes and aren’t included.
• The $600 homestead credit is applied in full when the bill is large enough; Amendment 79 also limits how fast a homestead’s assessed value can rise, which isn’t modeled. Senior, veteran, widow and disability exemptions aren’t modeled.
• Rates are from the state’s 2025 Millage Report (2026 collections), page 50.
• County and city taxes are shown as single slices; the county’s own spending is on the money trail.
• Spreading a government’s tax across its whole budget is a fair picture, not a receipt: most budgets also run on other money (sales tax, state aid, fees).

Related: Tax lab — change the rates · The money trail · What if we saved?. This page computes and cites; it doesn’t say what any rate should be. Spot an error? Report it.