If you collect sales tax, the month should be finished before the deposit is due. That deposit has to include state, city, and DART in one payment.
We do not want you reconstructing three weeks of tickets the day the money moves. The coding happens in the month, while the receipts are still familiar.
A shop that sells every day has a rhythm. A shop that sells in bursts has a different one. Both still close before the date, or the date becomes the close.
Say whether you collect it. If you do not, that date leaves the plan. Buyers on a taxable sale here hand over 8.25 percent in one payment. The state piece is 6.25, the city piece is 1, and the DART piece is the remaining 1. County tax is not stacked on top, and DART has kept its 1 since 1984. Those pieces are the ones on Comptroller Form 01-922 from June 2025 and on the Comptroller city lookup.
The franchise report
The Texas franchise report uses the legal name and the same closed year as the federal return. We prepare it from those months.
You should not be asked to sign a report built on a year the bank never agreed with. If the year is open, the report waits.
Margin or revenue is a choice with rules around it. We will show you which path the closed year supports. A path the closed year does not support stays off the report, even when it would make the margin look tidier.
The report is part of the return work. It is not a separate surprise in May.
Business property
Business property is reported to the county where the assets actually sit. You sign the rendition. We build the figures from the asset list and the finished months.
A truck, a cooler, or a room of chairs is not a footnote discovered after the deadline. If the list is old, updating it is part of the catch-up.
We will tell you which county the assets sit in and which date that county uses. The page you are reading does not guess your county for you.
If you have no business property worth listing, we will say that too. An empty list is a real answer. The property list is filed on April 15, and a written ask can move that same filing out to May 15. A protest is usually May 15, or 30 days from the appraisal notice when that notice arrives later. Franchise filings also land on May 15. The four estimate dates are April, June, September, and the following January, each on the 15th. The appraisal forms we build from are Form 50-145 for 2026 and Form 50-144. Franchise timing sits in Texas Tax Code 171.152 and 171.001, and Comptroller publication 98-143 is the plain-language companion. IRS Topic 306 is the federal page for the estimate dates.
The weekend the city fills up
The Red River game is played at the Cotton Bowl in Fair Park, and it has usually fallen on the second Saturday of October, in the middle of the fair. Restaurants and hotels feel that weekend in the deposits.
The books still close. A packed Saturday is not a reason to leave September open. We keep the close on the calendar when the streets are busy.
October is also early enough to look at owner pay for the rest of the year. A draw you choose then can still be a choice. A draw you discover in March is only a fact.
Tell us if your busy season is that weekend, the summer, or a buying market. The dates get planned around the season you actually have.
Ask about a date
Tell us the date that is on your mind. The answer names the month that still has to match the bank before that date means anything.
You will be talking to the Steven Palmieri practice.
