Home Reports Community Tax Dollars How the Comptroller sends your tax dollars back into your community Your tax dollars pay for much more than just statewide projects and infrastructure, such as state highway improvements. The money also goes back into your local community to improve the quality of living for you, your family and friends and your neighbors. Examples of local funding include costs for school maintenance or construction, money for the counties' budgets, local 4-H facilities, community centers, detention centers, universities, art centers and historic properties See how your tax dollars are reinvested in your county.