Business CPA Dallas AlternativeThe property form, the protest, and the May report.
These dates are not filed by the federal return. They belong in the books before a notice shows up.
Open dates
Open dates
We gather those numbers from the same months we use for the income tax return.
15 April and 15 May are ordinary calendar days when the books are already closed.
Ask which of these dates are still open
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Three dates, in ordinary words
A rendition is the form that tells the county what business property you have. In Dallas County it is due 15 April. Ask the county in writing and that date can move to 15 May.
A protest is how you argue the value the county put on that property. Count 30 days from the notice, and use 15 May when that count ends sooner.
The Texas franchise tax report is the state report on the business. It is due 15 May. The federal income tax return does not submit these for you.
We pull the property list and the franchise figures from the same closed months we use for the income tax return. The county form and the May report go out on their own dates, and we do that gathering as a Tax CFO, the Entrepreneur's CFO.
Sales tax in Dallas has three pieces
The Texas Comptroller is the state tax office. Inside Dallas the locator shows 8.25 percent all together, and it splits that into a state 6.25 percent, a city 1 percent, and a DART 1 percent.
Those three pieces are taken from the Comptroller page for the address on the form, and a remembered rate does not stay on this page.
DART already holds the local 1 percent, so a shop in Dallas County does not also pay a county sales tax on top of the city and the transit pieces.
Cross a city line and the local pieces can change. Addison and Plano are different points. This page does not invent their rates. The Comptroller locator is the check for the place you actually sell from.
The hotel tax the city of Dallas publishes under chapter 351 is 7 percent on that piece. Rooms and short stays also owe a hotel occupancy tax of 9 percent, figured on what the guest paid for the room, and a year that hosts World Cup matches can make that line real.
These figures come from the Texas Comptroller sales tax locator, the property tax deadline calendar, and the franchise tax page. Block shares are from the 2020 Census and are not land area or taxable value. Franchise figures are for the 2026 and 2027 report years. Property list timing is Tax Code 22.23. Protest timing is Tax Code 41.44. Rates are per 100 dollars of taxable value.
How this becomes help, not a pile of dates
Sixty-one local taxing units take their values from the Dallas Central Appraisal District, and the city is only one of those units. The address on the property decides which of them send a bill.
The dates only help if the books can support them. We keep the books through the year so the May report and the income tax return are not a scramble.
When we pass Fair Park just east of downtown we see the same grounds you do, and the property list still has to come from months we already closed.
If a letter about these dates also asks for an audit, a review, or a compilation, that part goes to a firm that can sign it. We will say so.
Map the county dates
We will look at your entity and tell you what Dallas County and the Comptroller still need this year. The reply is about your accounts, not a generic calendar.
You will be talking to the Steven Palmieri practice.