A notice with a date just arrived, and you are not sure which calendar it belongs to. Harris County sales tax splits into three parts, the franchise report keeps its own month, and a storm season is a third calendar, and Steven Palmieri, a Tax CFO and the Entrepreneur's CFO, checks each one against the form for that year.
On a taxable sale in Harris County the parts people meet are the state at 6.25 percent, the city at 1 percent, and the transit authority at 1 percent. We keep those parts separate in the books so a later return is not a single blended guess.
If you sell in more than one place, the local part can change. We do not assume every ticket is the Harris County mix. You tell us where the sale happened, and the books follow that.
The franchise report for many entities is due in May. That is the same month the Offshore Technology Conference fills hotels. The show can be busy. The report still needs books that are closed through the period the form asks for.
We confirm the exact due date on the form for that year. A page is not the form. If the date moved, the form wins, and we will say so before you rely on a memory.
Every Texan knows the Atlantic hurricane season runs from June 1 through November 30. We can respect that window. It does not move a sales tax deposit or a franchise report. If a storm closes the shop, we record the days you were shut and we still file what the calendar requires. A plan written in October survives a storm in August.
Estimated payments sit on their own dates too. We list the ones already paid and the ones still ahead. October is often late enough to see the shape of the year and early enough to change the last estimate.
A job in another county can carry a different local rate than a job in Harris County. We do not paint every invoice with the same three parts. You tell us the place of the sale, and the books keep that place on the line.
A permit that files monthly is a different rhythm from a permit that files quarterly. We follow the letter the state sent you. If that letter is old, we ask you to pull the current one before we set the calendar in the books.
Bring the permit letter to the same call as the franchise notice. They are different calendars, and mixing them is how a May report gets treated like a sales tax deposit. We write each one on its own line, with the period it covers and the account the cash should leave. When a rate on a later invoice differs, that invoice keeps its own place name in the books so the return can show the split.
Name the form and the year. We will confirm the date on that form.
You will be talking to the Steven Palmieri practice.