The address before the rate
.A date on the calendar is useless if the address is wrong. Sales tax follows the place the sale is sourced, and we check that place before we write a rate.
Inside the city limits we separate state tax at 6.25 percent, the city slice under local code 2101017 at 1 percent, and the transit share under local code 3101990 at 1 percent. Added together those three are 8.25 percent.
On a sale sourced inside the city limits, Harris County contributes no extra county sales tax line beyond the state slice, the city slice, and the transit slice. Fort Bend and Montgomery can show another local row, which is why a drive across a county line is an address check, not a guess.
The Comptroller lookup is how an address is checked. We use that lookup rather than a rate remembered from a different shop.
Filing day for sales tax is the 20th after the month. We want the month tied before that day is treated as a deadline for unmatched figures.
April, May, and the show week
.The property list for this calendar is taken from a month the bank already matched, and that list is wanted in the middle of April. A request in writing can shift that day to 15 May, and we use the later day only when the request is in the file.
A protest is usually the later of 15 May and the day that falls 30 days after the notice. We use the notice date, not a memory. We put the notice date next to the month the notice arrived so the later day is not a memory.
A year with zero franchise tax still sends that report out on 15 May. We prepare it from the closed year, not from a year that is still open in the spring.
A large gathering in May can fill a week on the calendar beside the return. We put that week beside the 15 May dates, and we do not let the gathering move a filing that has no written request behind it. The dates on the return stay the dates the form names. A full hall does not extend them.
A July call
.A July conversation should bring one figure, and that figure has to come from a tied month rather than an open one. If the newest trusted month is May, the call is about May, not about a June that is still open.
We bring that one figure. You tell us whether the shop still resembles it. The return later uses the same figure, not a new one invented for the call.
The property list itself is on the rendition page, and the franchise report is on its own page.
