Wind Farm Neighbor Asks Texas Justices to Scrutinize Tax Break

The Texas Supreme Court should review a wind farm’s property tax abatement topping $10 million to clarify the requirements for taxpayer standing, the owner of a neighboring property argued.

A state appeals court ruled in May that Suzonne Franks’ alleged injuries—misuse of taxpayer money and diminished property value—aren’t traceable to Glenn Hegar, then-Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, so she didn’t have standing to sue him for approving the abatement. But traceability isn’t part of the test for taxpayer standing, Franks told the Texas Supreme Court in a petition for review posted Aug. 16

“For more than a century, it has ...