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The sales tax rows

A confirmed Harris County sale is posted at 8.25 percent. Harris County's 8.25 is the state 6.25 added to a city 1 and a transit 1. A shop in Fort Bend can carry a different local piece, so we read the Comptroller locator with you instead of trusting last year's memory.

The photograph looks down the Houston Ship Channel toward the San Jacinto Monument, with terminals and ships along the water. Every Texan can appreciate that working channel. We share the view with you, and we also ask whether a heavy terminal week landed in the right month or spilled into the next one.

We want those rows inside the deposit, not discovered when the return is already late. A sale recorded as one lump hides the transit piece until someone has to explain it.

The other dates that belong on the year

Many owners file the federal return in April. A typical Texas margin report is due in the middle of May, after the federal return many owners have already sent. Business property rendition is a spring chore for a lot of companies. Sales tax follows the Comptroller calendar for the address on the permit.

Every Texan who works the Rodeo month knows hotels and restaurants change their week. We appreciate that rush with you, and the sales tax row has to match the deposits from those nights.

What is not a filing we invent

We do not print a rate we have not checked, and we do not promise a local row for an address we have not looked up. If your shop sits on a county line, bring the address and we will read the locator with you.

None of these ordinary filings is the signed report a lender sometimes asks for. The return, the franchise report, and the sales tax filing can sit with the same name that closes the month.

One name on the calendar

A group can split the dates across three inboxes. Then May arrives and each person thought another person had the report. We keep the dates with the close, so the person who matched April is the person who knows what May still needs.

If you want that name before the next due date, send the permit address and the last month you trust. The reply names which filings stay here and which signature has to go to a firm that can sign.

A filing calendar only works when the month under it is closed. We will not drop a sales tax number onto a week that still has unmatched deposits. The address tells us the rows. The bank tells us the dollars. Both have to be in the same conversation, or the report is a guess with a due date stamped on it.

Owners sometimes keep a second company in a neighboring county and assume the rows match. They often do not. Bring both addresses. We will look them up side by side and keep each company's deposits in that company's month. One name can hold both calendars. Two silent inboxes usually hold neither.

A filing that leaves this practice is the one that asks for a signature on a report. The sales tax filing, the May franchise report, and the spring rendition can stay. We still will not drop a rate onto an address we have not read with you. If the locator and the permit disagree, the disagreement is the first sentence of the note we send back. You should see that sentence before any report goes out the door.

Local code 2101017 is the one percent city piece we post beside the state 6.25, and local code 3101990 is the one percent transit piece beside it. Together with the state piece they are the 8.25 we use for a confirmed Harris County address. Both codes were on the Comptroller rate locator when we checked it on 28 September 2026. A shop across a county line can carry a different local piece, so the address is read again before a rate is copied onto a week of deposits.

Count the blocks in the 2025 school workbook and Houston ISD covers 64.33 percent of them inside these city limits. The district total on that same workbook is 0.8783 for each 100 dollars of taxable value. Houston ISD's workbook puts 0.7116 toward running the schools and 0.1667 toward paying for the buildings, inside the 0.8783 total. We checked the Comptroller school workbook on 28 September 2026. The figure is a public rate for the district. The name on the close is the person who copies it only after the address has been read, and who leaves a parcel alone when the district on the bill is different.

Harris County covers 96.93 percent of those same blocks in the 2025 county workbook, which lists 0.38096 per 100 dollars. We checked that county workbook on 28 September 2026. A parcel near a line can sit in another county's row. We do not treat the workbook share as a bill for one address. We treat it as the reason the permit address has to be in the same conversation as the deposits.

We still open the May franchise work when margin for the 2026 or 2027 report year sits under the Comptroller line of 2,650,000 dollars. Tax on that margin can be zero, and an information report can still need a name. When tax is due, retail and wholesale use 0.375 percent and other activity uses 0.75 percent. We keep 15 May on the same calendar as the close. Sales tax for the address is due on the 20th. Business property rendition is due on 15 April unless a written request moves that rendition to 15 May. We read those lines on the Comptroller pages on 28 September 2026.

A filing calendar only earns its keep when the month under it is closed. We will not drop a sales tax number onto a week that still has unmatched deposits. The address tells us the rows. The bank tells us the dollars. Both have to agree before the person whose name is on the close will let the report leave. If the locator and the permit still disagree, that disagreement is the note you see first.

Owners sometimes keep a second company in a neighboring county and assume the rows match. They often do not. Bring both permit addresses. We look them up side by side and we keep each company's deposits inside that company's month. One name can hold both calendars. Two silent inboxes usually hold neither, and May is when that silence gets expensive in time.