The letterhead is Carrollton. The ship-to line is the rate.
Carrollton is in three counties, Collin, Dallas, and Denton, so three appraisal districts can be in the same April. The sales-tax fact is sharper than the county count: city tax is 1% and Dallas MTA is 1%. Deliver the goods somewhere that mix does not apply, and the letterhead rate is the wrong rate.
Carrollton is in Collin County, Dallas County, and Denton County. The appraisal districts are Collin CAD, Dallas CAD, and Denton CAD. April 15 is the rendition due date for business personal property. A district only gets a rendition for property it taxes. Printing three forms and filing blank ones is not the goal. Missing a district that does tax your property is the failure mode. Combined sales tax is 8.25%. City tax is 1%. Dallas MTA is 1%. No special-purpose district is on Carrollton's line in this file. State sales tax of 6.25% plus the city 1% plus Dallas MTA 1% equals 8.25%. May 15 remains the franchise (margin) tax report, with a no-tax-due threshold you look up rather than memorize from a blog. Texas does not have a personal income tax. The sales-tax permit, not the letterhead, says whether you file monthly, quarterly, or yearly. Volume drives that. Delivered materials and a job address fit the construction cleanup site. Three counties are the backdrop, not a claim about how many builders work here. The industries page is for a different trade.
Read the delivery ticket from the bottom. The ship-to address is a city, or it is a job site with a city implied by the road. Your letterhead says Carrollton because that is where you rented the office or parked the rack. Carrollton's local split, city tax 1% plus Dallas MTA 1% on top of state 6.25%, belongs on a sale whose place is Carrollton. The driver already left. The rate should have left with the address. This is the opposite of a pickup. If the contractor's runner comes to your Carrollton counter and loads the truck there, the counter's rate is the honest rate. If you send your truck to their slab, the slab wins. Every quote since that default tax code was saved has been Carrollton, including jobs you have never performed inside Carrollton. The three counties are a rendition problem sitting next to this, and they are not the same problem. Collin CAD, Dallas CAD, and Denton CAD do not care what tax code was on the pipe invoice. They care where your rack, your forklift, and your unsold stock are kept. A company can have a Carrollton delivery rate and a yard that is across a county line from the showroom. File the rendition where the property sits. Do not file three identical renditions to feel thorough, and do not file one because the website says Carrollton. Job cost will hide the mistake if tax is buried in the material line. Send five delivery tickets from the last month and five counter tickets from the same month, plus the tax code your estimate software calls the default. The first pass reads the ship-to city on the five deliveries and sets it next to Carrollton's Dallas MTA split, without recoding the jobs yet. You get a sheet that says which of the five used a Carrollton rate on a non-Carrollton address, and which counter tickets were right to use city 1% plus Dallas MTA 1%. You also get a reminder of which of the three appraisal districts matches the yard address, separate from the tickets. The sheet comes back before those jobs are closed, so the tax line can be fixed while the ticket is still a ticket. Closed jobs turn this into a change-order fight. Photographs of tickets are fine. There is no Carrollton office in this offer.
The construction guide is the longer version of job cost and delivered materials.
Construction business books cleanup
A business with no deliveries should use the industry list and ignore this week.
Book a time and send five delivery tickets with the address visible.