Accounting Firms Houston Alternative. April, May, and the address row

On a taxable sale inside Harris County, write three rates before you add them. State is 6.25 percent. Local code 2101017 is the city's own 1 percent on that sale. The transit piece is 1 percent under code 3101990 where that row applies. The sum of those three stops at 8.25 percent.

Fort Bend and other nearby counties can show a different local piece. The Comptroller lookup is what checks an address, and a guess from a neighborhood name is not the lookup.

We write the row down for the address you actually ship from or ring up from. A second location can mean a second row.

Every Texan who has sat on Interstate 10 between Katy and downtown knows that stretch by the name Katy Freeway. We can appreciate the drive. A long drive does not move a filing date, so the date stays on the list.

Hot, humid summers and mild winters are the shape of the year, and the hot months are the stretch anyone who works on air conditioning plans around. That heavy afternoon does not move a filing date. We look at the same heat and still keep the sales tax row on its date.

April and May are when estimates and the prior year often land in the same week. We would rather those dates be on a list in February than discovered in the week they are due.

The list is sales tax, estimates, payroll filings that follow payday, and the return itself. It is not a promise that every date applies to you.

Payday filings stay off that list until a provider is actually in place. You still run payday once that setup exists.

Bring the address and the last return. We will say which dates are yours and which ones are not.

Sales tax, payroll filings that follow payday, federal estimates, and the return itself are the usual lines. A franchise report often comes due in May, and we add it after we see the entity, rather than assuming every owner files the same form.

A date on the list is not a statement that you owe that filing. Some owners have no sales tax because they sell nothing taxable. Some have no payroll because they have no staff. The list gets shorter when the facts are plain.

We would rather you see the next two dates than a year of dates you will not remember. The far ones stay written down. The near ones get a conversation.

If a payment has to move before an evening cutoff, we will say so for that filing when it applies to you. This page does not guess the cutoff for a payment you have not described. The questions page is where a short version of this lives.