# 2025-00193: Feds Propose Penny Tax Hike on Texas Oranges Forever

2025-00193, Oranges and Grapefruit Grown in Lower Rio Grande Valley in Texas; Increased Assessment Rate, is a Federal Register proposed rule from an unnamed agency published 2025-01-15, effective 2024-08-01 (as of 2026-06-11).

- Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-00193
- As of: 2026-06-11
- Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts.

## Facts
- Document number: 2025-00193
- Title: Oranges and Grapefruit Grown in Lower Rio Grande Valley in Texas; Increased Assessment Rate
- Type: Proposed Rule
- Agencies: unknown
- Citation: unknown
- Published: 2025-01-15
- Effective: 2024-08-01
- Comments close: not stated
- Significant: no
- Touches household money: no
- Regulation identifier numbers: none
- Last updated: 2026-06-11

## In one line

Feds Propose Penny Tax Hike on Texas Oranges Forever

## Summary

If you grow oranges or grapefruit in Texas’ Lower Rio Grande Valley, get ready to chip in a bit more! The fee per carton is proposed to go up from 3 cents to 4 cents starting in 2024-2025 and will stay that way unless changed later. This helps support the local citrus industry, and comments on this change are open until February 14, 2025.

## Abstract

This proposed rule would implement a recommendation from the Texas Valley Citrus Committee (Committee) to increase the assessment rate established for the 2024-2025 and subsequent fiscal periods from $0.03 to $0.04 per 7/10-bushel carton or equivalent of oranges and grapefruit grown in Texas. The proposed assessment rate would remain in effect indefinitely unless modified, suspended, or terminated.

## Effects PRIA read

- Assessment Rate Raised to $0.04/Carton: cost, medium. If you handle oranges or grapefruit grown in the Lower Rio Grande Valley in Texas, the assessment you pay would increase from $0.03 to $0.04 per 7/10-bushel carton (effective August 1, 2024) and remain in effect for the 2024-2025 and subsequent fiscal periods unless changed. The increase is $0.01 p…
- Assessment Funds Cover Budget, Replenish Reserves: benefit, medium. The Committee recommends the $0.04 assessment so that, with an estimated 4,000,000 7/10-bushel cartons, assessments would generate $160,000 to cover the Committee's $134,970 budget for 2024-2025 and replenish reserves. The increase is intended to ensure the Committee can fund management, compliance…
- Producers May Bear Small Share of Cost: cost, low. The rule increases the assessment obligation on handlers and the document states that some of these costs may be passed on to producers. At the $0.04 rate and an estimated average producer price of $14.15 per carton, the assessment would be about 0.2 percent of producer revenue per carton.

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## Sources
- [2025-00193 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/01/15/2025-00193/oranges-and-grapefruit-grown-in-lower-rio-grande-valley-in-texas-increased-assessment-rate)
- [2025-00193 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-01-15/pdf/2025-00193.pdf)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-00193 (as of 2026-06-11).