The twentieth comes around whether the month is closed or not. The tax row follows the address on the sale. For this front door that lookup belongs to Steven Palmieri in the Tax CFO role, the same work the public meets as the Entrepreneur's CFO, and a percentage is written down only after the Comptroller page agrees with the address. Harris County is state, city, and transit, checked before it is used.
Before a rate is used, we look up the Harris County address. State tax on that row is 6.25 percent. City tax is 1 percent. Transit tax is 1 percent.
Added up, that is 8.25 percent, and only when the Comptroller lookup agrees with the address. A delivery across a county line can pick up a different stack. We will not paste one rate onto every ticket.
A neighboring county can show another local row. So can a city next door. If you sell in more than one place, each address gets its own check.
Since 1969 the Offshore Technology Conference has kept a May week on the local calendar. Energy people across Texas know that week. We can all appreciate that week. A closed quarter and an estimate often land in May too, and the books stay on the calendar while the show is on.
The estimate is a reminder. This page does not compute a payment for you. Franchise tax has its own form and its own date, and the rate depends on the entity, so it is not invented here.
Payroll filings follow the pay dates you actually run. Setup puts those dates on a calendar. You still run payday. If a date is about to pass and the books for that month are open, say so. An open month is a worse surprise than a date you can see.
A wary owner has already paid a rate that belonged to a different address. The fix is the lookup, written down, before the ticket uses it. We do not keep a favorite total for the county and paste it onto every sale. If the Comptroller page and the address disagree with a number someone remembers, the page wins.
The twentieth is a date on the calendar, not a reason to invent a month the bank has not matched. If the month is open, we say so before anyone treats the row as finished. A closed month can support a filing. An open month cannot. That is the same order as the return, and a printed deadline does not change it.
Bring the address you sell from and the month you trust. If you sell from more than one counter, name each address. We would rather check two rows than explain a notice that used the wrong one. The phone under the legal links reaches the same practice when the form is the wrong first move.
Name the address you sell from and the date that is worrying you.
You will be talking to the Steven Palmieri practice.