County facing legal action over newly adopted tax rate

Lavaca County is facing a lawsuit over its newly adopted 2026 tax rate but County Judge Keith Mudd believes the county did nothing wrong and followed its process when it came to setting this year’s rate.

According to Trent Nichols of the law offices of Trent Nichols in Shiner, the county is being sued based on how the county calculated the recently adopted 2026 tax rate. Nichols said the county “wr…