CPA and Bookkeeping Fort Worth AlternativeDates a year in this city already has.
A notice about school tax arrived the same week as the sales tax reminder. They are not the same form. School tax, sales tax, and the May franchise report are public dates. We keep them next to the monthly close so a filing does not arrive as a stranger.
Check a date
The school rate, from the Comptroller workbook
FWISD covers 64.71 percent of the city's blocks in the workbook we use. Open that 2025 workbook and the district's combined figure is 1.0291 against each 100 dollars of taxable value. Maintenance and operations are 0.7869. Interest and sinking are 0.2422.
Those figures describe the district. They are not a bill for your address, and they are not a guess we invented for the page. Those school figures come from the property value workbook the Texas Comptroller publishes for districts.
A shop that owns property still lists business personal property with the county in the spring. The school rate and that listing are neighbors on the calendar. They are not the same form. We keep them apart so April does not become a blur.
Sales tax, and the 20th.
The state's own sales-tax slice is 6.25 percent. City and transit pieces may stack as much as 2 percent on top of that. The combined rate is capped at 8.25 percent. Sales tax for that period still comes due on the 20th.
The source for that stack is the Comptroller's sales tax pages. We open them again when this page changes. A rate you heard in a lunch line does not get printed here.
If your month is not closed on the 15th, the 20th gets nervous. We close taxable sales early enough that the report is a copy of the books, not a fresh invention. The bank can still be finished a few days later for the pieces that are not sales.
The sales report is still due on the 20th, whether the week felt easy or not. The month still has to be tied to the bank before that report goes out. School tax is a different form, and we keep the two dates on two lines.
We write the school amount on the property line and the sales amount on the 20th line, and we never add those two amounts together.
The franchise report in May
For report years 2026 and 2027, the no-tax-due threshold is two million six hundred fifty thousand dollars. A seller of goods, whether the counter is retail or wholesale, is the group at 0.375 percent. Other businesses use 0.75 percent. Franchise reports for those years are due on 15 May.
Franchise thresholds and rates on this page come from the Comptroller franchise tax material. Whether your year is under the threshold is a fact from your books, not a slogan. We would rather know in the winter than discover it on 14 May.
A new entity still files, even when the tax is zero. Skipping a zero report is how a quiet letter becomes a louder one. That May franchise date sits beside the monthly bank match on the calendar we keep.
If your accounting year is not the calendar year, say so on the first call. The due date follows the year you actually keep. We will not assume December.
How these dates sit next to a hire
A first payday does not move the 20th or the middle of May. It adds a third calendar, the one inside the provider. We want all three visible so a week in May is not the week you meet your own business for the first time.
Property listing in April, sales tax on the 20th, franchise tax in May, and a payday every cycle. None of these is the monthly close. All of them are easier when the close already happened.
We include a date in the scope only when the scope names it. If sales tax stays with your office manager, we do not quietly take it. This dates page is only the calendar. The engagement is the part you actually hired.
What we will not do with a date
We will not file a report from a month that is still open and call it careful. We will not invent a rate because the workbook is annoying to open. We will not treat a school rate as advice about your building.
Public figures on this page can change when the state changes them. When they do, the page changes. Until then, the numbers above are the ones the sources showed when this page was written.
Links for the sources sit with the Comptroller. Sales tax lives under the sales tax section of comptroller.texas.gov. Franchise tax lives under the franchise section. The school workbook is the property tax report the same office publishes for school districts.
Tell us which date is close
The 20th, May, or a listing in April. One word is a start.
You will be talking to the Steven Palmieri practice.