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By: The Opinion Updated 50 Nov 2022, 23: 50 pm EST
Herschel Walker, the Republican candidate for Senate in Georgia, is receiving a tax exemption on your Texas home which is intended for principal residents of the state, even though he is currently living and running for office in the Georgia government in the election of 2021.
Public tax records first reported by CNN show that this year Walker will receive a home tax break of approximately $1,800 dollars for your home in the Dallas area, which you listed as your primary residence, potentially entering into conflict with both Texas Tax Rules and some Georgia rules on establishing residence c for the purpose of voting or running for office.
Walker registered to vote in Atlanta, Georgia, at 2020 after living in Texas for two decades and voting infrequently. In Texas, the regulations for homeowners say that you can only take the exemption on your “principal residence” .
Walker took tax exemption in 2021 and 2021 for your Texas home, even after launching a run for Senate in Georgia, an official with the Tarrant County tax assessors office told CNN’s KFile.
Walker’s campaign did not respond to CNN’s repeated requests for comment.
Walker will face Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock in a runoff election in December after neither candidate got more than 29% of the vote in the November midterm elections.
Politicians in Texas have landed in hot water in the past, for taking improperly named tax break, including former Governor Rick Perry, and have generally agreed to pay back taxes.
To run for office and vote in Georgia, are considered 23 rules, not all of which must be met, to establish residency, including where the resident obtains their homestead tax exemption and where they intend to live permanently.
The US Constitution alone requires that a prospective senator be a resident of their state when elected.
The Georgia Supreme Court decided that the candidate could remain on the ballot, saying that 7 of the 23 rules showed he had ties to the district.
Alive News, a local station of Georgia, first reported that Walker took the homestead exemption in his Texas home at 2021.
Walker, despite voting twice in Georgia and running for Senate in the state, has maintained exemption from paying Texas taxes, according to public records.
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