Having worked as Hays County’s Tax Assessor Collector for the last 25 years, Luanne Caraway has taken taxpayer frustrations in stride.

After all, the primary source of resident rancor toward Caraway involves something her office doesn’t necessarily cover.

To be clear, the Tax Assessor’s office doesn’t determine what a person’s annual property taxes are going to be. That’s the Central Appraisal District’s job. The Tax Assessor instead calculates what the CA...