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What goes on the calendar

The 1915 Taylor County courthouse still anchors the square. The dates on this page are civic in the same way. They mean something only when the month under them is closed.

The rate we keep on a shop inside Abilene is 8.25 percent. Of that, 6.25 percent is the state portion and 2 percent is the city portion under Comptroller local code 2221012. Taylor County does not appear on the county rate table, so the whole local slice inside the city is city tax. A seller who also delivers outside the city has to ask the locator for that address. We do not assume the counter rate travels with the truck.

A normal monthly sales tax return is due on the 20th of the next month. We keep that date next to the close, not in a separate world. The taxable sales on the return should be the taxable sales in the closed month. If they are not, the month is not finished, even if the bank tied. Fair week at the Expo Center does not move the 20th. It only makes the month larger.

Hotel stays and empty months

The city hotel occupancy report charges 7 percent of taxable receipts for the city and 2 percent for the Abilene Taylor County Venue District. The form is filed every month even when no tax is due, and payment is due by the 20th of the following month. An empty February is still a filing. We would rather file a zero than explain a missing month in the summer.

If you do not rent rooms, this paragraph is not your problem, and we will not bolt it onto a retail close. If you do, it sits on the same calendar as sales tax so the two 20ths are one sitting and not two panics.

The appraisal notice

Business personal property is rendered to the Central Appraisal District of Taylor County, and a protest can be filed through the district's online portal. We do not print a street for the counter, because you should not need the counter for an ordinary rendition. What we do is make sure the asset list in the books is the list you could stand behind. A cooler you sold last spring should not still be on the rendition. A build-out you finished should not be missing.

A notice from the district is one of the few letters that should change your afternoon. Bring it. We read it against the asset list. If a protest makes sense, we help you assemble the facts. We do not stand in as the signer on a report about those facts.

Franchise tax on the same year

The federal return and the Texas franchise report look at overlapping revenue and they are not the same form. The no-tax-due threshold for reports in 2026 and 2027 is 2.65 million. A report can be required under that line. The due date is 15 May. We keep a single checklist so May is not the month you discover the second form.

Rates and thresholds move. The sentence you are reading is tied to the Comptroller's published figures for those report years. If a later year changes the line, this page changes. We will not leave an old number up because it was convenient.