TYLER — Smith County Tax Assessor-Collector Gary Barber was sworn in as the President of the Tax Assessor-Collectors’ Association (TACA) of Texas during the annual TACA conference this month in Abilene. \u201cI am proud to have the opportunity to serve as president during a legislative year,\u201d Barber said. Barber said the Tax Assessor-Collectors’ Association is an organization that provides support to its members and serves as a watchdog group for tax-related legislation in Austin. \u201cWe have a lot of contact with the taxpayers in our counties, and we try to look out for any legislation that may affect them,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Barber was elected Tax Assessor-Collector of Smith County in 2005. He was the recipient of the prestigious TACA President\u2019s award in 2009. \u201cTACA is so important to me. Without this organization, I would not have made it through my first year as Tax Assessor-Collector. This is why I want to be active on their board and someday I might help other members, the way they helped me,\u201d Barber said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
TYLER — Smith County Tax Assessor-Collector Gary Barber was sworn in as the President of the Tax Assessor-Collectors’ Association (TACA) of Texas during the annual TACA conference this month in Abilene. \u201cI am proud to have the opportunity to serve as president during a legislative year,\u201d Barber said. Barber said the Tax Assessor-Collectors’ Association is … Continue reading Barber Sworn In as TACA President<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-05 22:25:53","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14524"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14795,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14524\/revisions\/14795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}