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Dallas, and the owners we meet from the rest of the state

Dallas is where this practice sits. We meet Texas owners on video, share the books, and keep one link for the conversation. The company can keep its own floor in Houston, in the Valley, in the Panhandle, or in a town that does not make the weather map. One named close date covers the screen we share and a floor on the other side of the state. El Paso, the Valley, and a town too small for the weather map all stay in the same conversation. We are all Texans, and we do not pretend we keep an office on your street.

We read the LLC election before a fee is named, under the Tax CFO title and the Entrepreneur's CFO title, and that reading happens in Dallas. One engagement covers both the closed month and the return that year files. The letter comes first. A price named before the letter has a name is a guess, in Dallas and anywhere else in the state.

Those four ways a company is taxed do not behave alike. One return or three, a wage or a draw, a May report or a quiet Texas year, all of that follows the letter. A quiet year on the federal return can still be a year the Comptroller expects a report. We would rather start with not sure than with a guess.

The fair, the line, the front, and the white arch

Big Tex has stood in the fairgrounds since 1952, and we count ourselves in that Texan crowd. The sales still have to reach the bank. A Saturday at the fair can feel like proof the company worked. Monday's question is narrower. Did the cash land in the company account, or did it stay in a drawer until someone remembered.

We can all appreciate the line for brisket at Pecan Lodge in Deep Ellum. We still ask whether the cash reached the bank. A long line is a good afternoon, and the deposit is a separate fact. The plate and the deposit are two records, and only one of them shows up on the May report if the company collects sales tax.

Every Texan knows the sky that turns dark and drops the temperature in an afternoon. We feel that front in Dallas, and the close stays on the named day. A blue norther does not push the bank tie. Owners outside Dallas and Fort Worth know that same sky. We are all Texans about the weather, and the month still closes on the day we already wrote down.

Any Texan who has crossed the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge remembers that white arch. We ask what the books say that span is worth. A landmark can look like progress from the road. A building, a truck, a walk-in cooler, the same question. What is the depreciated life, and what is the book value now, before anyone treats the purchase as a feeling.

The May report a Texas company still files

No personal income tax in Texas is not the end of the calendar. A taxable entity still files a franchise report, and the public information report or the ownership report rides with it. For 2026 the Comptroller prints a no-tax-due line of 2.65 million. At or under that line, no franchise tax is due, and the information report is still due. We put that franchise report on the calendar. No Texas income tax does not erase the May filing.

Calendar-year entities ordinarily put the Comptroller franchise report, and the information report that rides with it, on 15 May. A May date that lands on a closed office day slides forward one open morning, and the Comptroller page for that year is the list of closed days. In 2026, 15 May is a Friday, so the date does not move. The public information report or the ownership report is due the same day. 15 May is the ordinary due date. Confirm it on the Comptroller's franchise page for your report year. A threshold is not invented here, and a report is not skipped because the tax itself came out at nothing.

For retail and wholesale the Comptroller prints 0.375 percent. For other businesses the figure is 0.75 percent. Both belong to the Comptroller for 2026 and 2027, and the franchise page should be read before you rely on them. They are here so a May conversation has a shape. A web page is not your return. Retail and wholesale sit on one Comptroller rate. Every other business sits on another.

A zero tax bill is not a finished May. The information report is still due. Owners hear no tax due and then send nothing. We put 15 May on the calendar in April, before anyone treats the zero as a finished year. If you are not sure whether last May was filed, that is the question to send. We would rather look it up with you than assume a prior preparer handled a report you never saw.

Margin, the register, and the extension that is only a date

Franchise tax, when it applies, is built on margin. The Comptroller allows more than one way to compute it, including a percentage of revenue, revenue minus cost of goods, and revenue minus compensation. The choice is a computation, not a mood. It wants the same revenue the federal return already had to defend. That is why a readable month matters in April. A May report built on a guess about revenue is how a no-tax-due company accidentally becomes a taxable one, or the reverse. The months get closed here before anyone fills that report.

A quiet register in Dallas, where shoppers pay 8.25 percent that splits into state, city, and the transit share, is a sales-tax fact. That receipt does not stand in for the May franchise report. The two taxes share a calendar and not a statute. Shoppers in Dallas pay that 8.25 percent at the register. Any Texan who has paid that rate knows the receipt. The May report is a different tax. A quiet Saturday does not cancel it.

An extension exists. It is not a reason to ignore May. Entities with a larger prior payment can have an earlier electronic date, and a short extension payment can draw penalty on the unpaid share. The details live on the Comptroller's extension notes. If your company paid a large amount last year, say so, because the calendar is not the simple one. What gets missed is the information report that has to travel with a zero bill, on that same Friday.

Places Texans already know, and the work under them

Klyde Warren Park sits on a deck over a freeway and stays open late. Any Texan can love a park you can walk into after a long day. We use that walk as a picture of a company that looks open while the books underneath are still a deck over last month. The lights are on. The bank has not been tied. We are all Texans about a park like that, and we still ask for the month.

The M-Line streetcar runs along McKinney Avenue every day. Any Texan can love a car that shows up on a schedule. A month is finished only when the same day shows up in the bank. A bill on a schedule is a comfort. The tie is the work.

Sonny Bryan's has served barbecue near a hospital since 1958. We can all respect a place that has kept one recipe that long. An election letter should be that steady. One choice, kept, and the return that follows it. A new guess each April is how a Texas company ends up on the wrong federal form and the wrong May report at the same time.

Fair Park still puts the Red River game in the Cotton Bowl, and since 1934 that Saturday has usually been the second one in October, with the fair going on around it. Every Texan who follows the two schools knows the day. October matters here for a quieter reason. A month that already ties can still change the return. After the year locks, that Saturday is only a memory, and the return is only history.

A market week can fill the Market Center on Stemmons, and the Tuesday after it still needs the bank reconciled. We like a place that is clear about who it is for. This practice is the same way. The month, the return, payroll set up, and a straight no when the work is an audit. The hall can be full. The books still want Tuesday.

July and August in Dallas bring average highs near 96, with days over 100. Every Texan knows a week of that heat. We feel it in Dallas. A fee named in that heat, before anyone can say how the company is taxed, is still a guess. Owners in other parts of the state know their own version of that week. We are all Texans about it, and the letter still comes before the price.

Oak Cliff kept its own town charter from 1887 until the 1903 annexation into Dallas, and people there still speak of it as its own place. A Texan knows that feeling, a place absorbed on paper and still talked about as itself. An LLC can feel like its own company and still be taxed on the owner's personal return. The certificate makes it look separate. The letter decides. Both can be true, and only one of them files the federal return.

Adair's in Deep Ellum is the room with the walls covered in memorabilia. Any Texan can enjoy a room that keeps its history on the walls. We ask a company to keep its election letter with that kind of care, because the return follows the letter, not the memory. A wall of old photos does not file the report. The letter in the folder does.

Often an information report, even when the tax is nothing

Often an information report, even in a year with no franchise tax. The Comptroller's no-tax-due line for 2026 is 2.65 million. A company under that line can owe no franchise tax and still owe the report on 15 May. Check the Comptroller for your year before you rely on a sentence on a website, including this one. Rates and thresholds move. The habit of looking does not.

The May report a Texas company still files, the month an owner can point at, and the return that has to match the election are the work we keep together. A signed opinion on the statements, and a person to stand at a hearing, are named on the disclosures page as work we do not do. Payroll can be set up. Payday stays with the company that runs it. If a notice from the Comptroller is already on the table, bring the date and the form name. We read them with you. Speaking for you at a Comptroller hearing stays with someone allowed to do that, and we name that limit before the first month opens.

This page is the Texas page. The rest of the site talks about the federal letter, the month, and the return, in words an owner in any state can use. If your company is a Texas taxable entity, start here for the May report, then bring the same letter to the federal pages. One practice, sitting in Dallas. Your books wherever you keep them.

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