# tax_authority # tax_authority A body with the legal right to levy against a property: county, municipal, school district, and special districts. Represents tax collecting authorities including county, municipal, school district, and other special district entities that have the legal right to levy and collect property taxes. The question it answers ## Will this close cleanly? Liens, encumbrances, tax position, and association obligations determine whether a transaction completes and on what timeline. Other classes answering this question ## Why it matters A property is taxed by several authorities at once, and the total obligation is the sum of their separate levies. Modelling them separately is what makes the total explainable and what allows a change in one district's rate to be applied without recomputing the rest. ## Properties | Property | Type | Definition | | --- | --- | --- | | `source_http_request` | `object` | HTTP request configuration for retrieving this data. | | `request_identifier` | `string | null` | Identifier value that should be substituted into the source HTTP request to retrieve this specific data. | | `authority_name` | `string | null` | The name of the government agency or organization that has the legal right to collect taxes (e.g., 'Miami-Dade County', 'City of Miami', 'Miami-Dade School Board'). | | `authority_account_identifier` | `string | null` | A unique identifier assigned to the tax authority itself, used to distinguish this authority from other tax collecting entities in the system. | | `authority_category` | `string | null` | The category or type of tax authority that determines its jurisdiction and tax collection scope. `County``Municipal``School Board``School District``Independent School District``Independent``Special District``Water District``Fire District``Library District``Hospital District``Community College District``Transit Authority``Port Authority``Utility District``Improvement District``State``Federal` | ## Provenance and coverage A record of this class is validated against the same definition whatever jurisdiction it came from, which is what makes two counties comparable without a per-county adapter. A jurisdiction appears below only where a committed configuration serves this class's surface. - Lee, Florida - Palm Beach, Florida - Miami-Dade, Florida - Orange, Florida - Santa Clara, California How a new jurisdiction is brought online