Free Texas Online Tax Records

Another type of genealogy record that provides tremendous value is tax records. Like city directories and voting registers, they provide information for us between federal censuses. They also can go back to colonial times.

Types of Taxes

• Income tax
• Federal direct tax
• Poll or head tax
• Real property, e.g., land
• Personal property, e.g., livestock, equipment, carriages, enslaved persons
• Other, such as special levies for roads, schools, etc.

Types of Information

• Date
• Residence address; property, license, or goods; value; tax amount; possibly profession, occupation, or trade
• Name of taxpayer, usually white adult males
• Town/township/city, county, and state of residence
• Owner and/or renter of the property
• Number of white adult males in the home
• Type and value of property
• Livestock owned
• Personal property owned
• Amount of tax owed
• Profession, occupation, or trade
• Number of school-aged children
• Number of enslaved persons

Derivative information, such as birth date, death date, and date of marriage can often be estimated or determined from the presence or absence of a person in a tax list.

Good primers regarding the genealogical value of tax records and more details can be found in these articles:

• The Genealogical Benefits of Tax Records
• Using Poll Tax Records for Genealogy
• Genealogy 101: Tax Records
• Back to the Basics with Tax Records: Part 1
• Back to the Basics with Tax Records: Part 2
• Back to the Basics with Tax Records: Part 3
• United States Taxation
• The Value of Using US Tax Records in Genealogy Research

Note: Some of the links listed take you to a FamilySearch Collection of digital images. Near the bottom of the page under Film/Digital Notes is the name of each sub-collection. If there is a camera icon at the right of the name (in the Format column) then the collections’ images are browsable. If there is a camera with a key icon, it is only available at a Family History Center or affiliated library. If there is a film reel icon, then it is only available in microfilm format, not digital. To take full advantage, please make sure that you are logged in to FamilySearch. The results may be different if you are signed in, rather than not.

(Updated December 2022)

Listed below are links to tax records that are available for free online for the state:

• Anderson County, Tax Lists
• Anderson County, Tax Lists
• Aransas County, Early Records
• Austin County, Tax Lists
• Bowie County, Tax Lists
• Brown County, Tax Lists
• Caldwell County, Tax Lists
• Callahan County, Tax Judgement, 1897-1927
• Callahan County, Tax Record
• Coke County, Tax Lists
• Coryell County, Tax Lists
• Crane County, Tax Lists
• Dallas County, Tax Records
• Dallas County, Tax Records, 1846-47
• Dalworth Park Tax Rolls
• Erath County, Tax Lists
• Fisher County, Selected Tax Rolls, Tax Sale Deed Records, 1888-1908
• Freestone County, Tax Lists
• Frio County, Tax Lists
• Grand Prairie Tax Rolls
• Gray County, Early Tax Lists
• Gregg County, Tax Lists
• Hall County, Tax Lists
• Hansford County, Tax Lists
• Harris County, Tax Lists
• Harris County, Tax Lists
• Harris, Jasper, Jefferson, Liberty, Montgomery Counties, Tax Rolls of 1840
• Jackson County, Tax Lists
• Jasper County Tax Rolls
• McLennan County, Tax Lists
• Milam County, index to the Tax-in-kind, 1864-1865
• Montgomery County, Tax Lists
• Nacogdoches County, Tax Lists
• Nueces County, Tax Lists, 1883-1957
• Rusk County, Tax Lists
• Shelby County, Selected Tax Rolls, 1837, 1845, 1855, 1865, 1875, 1885
• Smith County, Tax Lists
• Stonewall County, Official Bond Records and Tax Collection, 1908-1933
• Swisher County, Tax Lists
• Texas, County Tax Rolls, 1837-1910
• Texas, County Tax Rolls, 1846-1910
• Texas, Internal Revenue Assessment Lists, 1865-1866
• Trinity County, Tax Lists
• United States Internal Revenue Assessment Lists, 1862-1874
• Van Zandt County, Occupational Taxes 1869 through 1874, Poll Taxes 1872
• Van Zandt County, Treasurer’s Ledger, 1870-1875