[TEXAS TRANSPARENCY] New Tools Reveal Your Tax Dollars at Work

Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts sent this bulletin at 03/03/2015 02:57 PM CST
  
New Tools Show Texas Govt. Payments
 
 
Image of Travel Payments Tool and Payments to Payee Tool
   
 
Texas state government is a multi-billion-dollar enterprise, and you deserve to know how it spends your money. The Texas Comptroller’s transparency tools enable you to search the state check register, track state spending and see your tax dollars at work.

Now we’re introducing two new data visualization tools that provide a greater level of detail and bring the numbers to life graphically.

  • With the new Travel Payments tool, you can break down payments by agency, individual payee, type of travel expense and more. It replaces the classic Travel Expenses by Agency tool.
     
  • Think of  the new Payments to Payee tool as a check register that lists individual payments, transaction dates, Comptroller object codes and more. The tool enables users to see relationships within the data and follow the money. It replaces parts of the Spending by Agency, Spending by Category, Payments to Vendors and Travel Expenses by Agency tools.
Try out the Comptroller’s new data visualization tools, and see how easy it is to discover how your tax dollars are spent.