CPA Firms Houston Now Alternative Questions about the open dates

Is sales tax always the 20th

For a monthly filer, sales tax is due on the 20th of the month after the sales. April sales are due May 20. If the 20th is a weekend or a holiday, the Comptroller's rule for the next business day is the one we follow, and we look it up rather than recite it from memory.

Quarterly filers use April 20, July 20, October 20, and January 20. Yearly filers use January 20. The day is still a 20th. The month changes with the permit. We ask which permit you have before we tell you the next date. Guessing from the size of the company is how the wrong quarter gets paid.

A payment over 1,000,000 dollars is initiated in TEXNET by 8 p.m. Central on the business day before the due date. That earlier clock surprises people who only remember the 20th. If your month is crossing that line we say so as soon as the sales are visible.

When is the franchise report due

The Texas franchise report is due May 15 for a calendar year filer. A company under the no-tax-due line can still have a franchise report to put in on May 15. Owing nothing is not the same as being excused from the report. We prepare the report from a year that has already been closed.

There is no city franchise tax in this conversation. Franchise tax is a state tax. We do not add a city line to it, and we do not mix it with the sales tax return that is due on a 20th.

The no tax due threshold for report years 2026 and 2027 is 2,650,000 dollars of revenue, under the Comptroller's current threshold. Being under it can mean no tax and still mean a report. We compute it. We do not wave at the threshold and skip the filing.

Rates, when tax is due, are 0.375 percent for retailing and wholesaling and 0.75 percent for other businesses, before the compensation deduction and the other computations. The EZ computation has its own total revenue threshold of 20 million dollars and a rate of 0.331 percent. We use the computation your facts support. We do not pick the one that sounds smaller.

When is a rendition due

Business personal property renditions are due April 15 for most property. A written request can move that date to May 15. Harris County Appraisal District takes the rendition for property in Harris County. Another county means another district.

The protest date is separate. May 15 or 30 days after the notice of appraised value, whichever is later. We do not let the rendition deadline borrow the protest deadline, or the other way around.

We build the list from asset records. If the engagement includes the list, the name beside that date is ours. If it does not, the date is still on the calendar so you can see it, with your name beside it.

What about the week in front of us

The week in front of you depends on the month you are in, which this page cannot know while it sits on a shelf. The companion page about this week is where we put the current cluster of dates. This page is the stable set of questions.

If two dates fall in the same week, we still treat them as different filings. A sales tax 20th and a rendition do not become one task because they share seven days. Different offices, different records, different done.

Ask us which of these is actually open for you. The form is for that. Bring the entity type and the last month you closed. We will tell you the next date we would watch, and we will tell you if a date is not yours.

Nothing here is a client result. Thresholds and rates change when the state changes them. A page that drifts gets corrected on the page. The phone is how you tell us if you spot a date that no longer matches the office that publishes it. If two dates share a week we still file them as two jobs, with two offices and two sets of records.