Dates that belong on the file.
Tax dates, for a company whose address is in Dallas.
We keep the months so the filings land on the calendar, not in a scramble. Steven Palmieri, a Tax CFO, is who you talk with.
Ask about a date
Sales tax inside a deposit collected in the city.
A receipt collected inside the city carries sales tax of 8.25 percent. The state portion is 6.25, the city portion is 1, and the DART portion is 1. The county piece is already spoken for by that transit share, so the receipt is not taxed a second time by the county.
Sell inside the city and the transit share is in the deposit even when nobody labeled it. It belongs in the books before the twentieth that follows the month of the sale. Finding it in the spring means those months were never really closed.
April and May on the company file.
The business personal property report goes to the Dallas Central Appraisal District by 15 April. A letter asking for more time can carry that same report out to the middle of May. Texas wants the franchise report on that same May day, whether or not the federal return is ready.
Those are not the federal return, and the federal return does not file them for you. They come off the same books. A closed year makes both of them ordinary. An open year makes both of them a hunt.
Where the address changes the story.
Dallas reaches into Collin, Denton, Kaufman, and Rockwall as well as Dallas County. The appraisal notice follows the county the address sits in. The county named on the notice is the one we use for that May report, and we confirm it with you first. A shop whose address has already crossed the county line is not on the same notice as a shop that stayed inside Dallas County.
We ask for the address before we talk about the property report. The county comes from the address on the notice, never from the habit of naming the city.
If you would rather hand a form to a person, the Comptroller still keeps walk-in hours on Monday and Wednesday from 9 to 4, and on Friday from 8 until noon. Those windows are for a form that needs a counter. The month behind the form is what we close before the twentieth.
Sales tax follows the month you collected it. If that month is still open, the deposit and the filing are guessing at each other. Closing the month before the 20th is how a seller who collects in the city stays ordinary.
Ask for more time and the property report can ride out to the middle of May, the same day the franchise report already wants. May gets crowded when the federal return is still open too. May stays ordinary when the winter months were already closed. We ask which date is actually in your hand before we talk about the rest.
Put the address at the top of the note you send. The appraisal notice follows the county that address sits in, and guessing the county from the city name is how a report goes to the wrong office. A closed winter makes April and May an ordinary pair of dates. An open winter makes both of them a hunt through the same months.
Name the date.
Name the notice or the month. The books either already contain what that date asks for, or they need a close first.