The cap is 8.25%. Combine's combined rate on the Comptroller file is 7.75%.
If a rental contract or a register was set to the statewide cap, Combine customers have been charged half a point that the city's own line does not call for. The line is state 6.25% plus a 1.5% city tax. No transit. No special district. The two counties, Dallas and Kaufman, matter for the rendition, not as an excuse to round the rate up.
Combine is in Dallas County and Kaufman County. Dallas CAD and Kaufman CAD are the appraisal districts. April 15 is the business personal property rendition date. Which district gets the form depends on where the property is located, not on which county you wish were simpler. The Comptroller combined sales-tax rate for Combine is 7.75%. That is under the statewide combined cap of 8.25%. City tax is 1.5%. Transit is absent from the line. Special-purpose districts are absent. State sales tax is 6.25%. There is no extra half point to explain, and there is no missing half point to invent. Charging the cap anyway over-collects. Franchise (margin) tax reports come due May 15. The no-tax-due threshold is part of the law and not part of this paragraph's arithmetic. Look up the current cutoff. No state personal income tax applies. Sales-tax returns are monthly, quarterly, or yearly by the volume test on the permit. The event-planner cleanup site is the fleet page for a contract that charges tax on rented goods. The industries page lists the guides that are not about events.
Look at the last contract you sent a couple. Somewhere near the total is a tax line. If the line says 8.25% because the Texas cap was used as Combine's rate, that line is wrong. Combine's combined rate is 7.75%. The pieces are state 6.25% and city tax 1.5%. They add cleanly. Over-collecting is not a cushion and it is not a tip. Tax you charged above the combined rate is not your income, and it is not a safer payable. It is an amount the customer paid that the rate does not support. Under-collecting would be the other mistake. Combine's mistake, when the template says the cap, is the first one. Refunding the difference on future contracts is a pricing decision you can see plainly once the template is edited. Leaving the template is how every Saturday repeats it. Event deposits complicate the cleanup if you treat the whole deposit as this month's sales. This page is not a ruling on which line of your contract is taxable. Dallas County and Kaufman County still split the rendition question. Tents you own, the trailer they ride in, and the dishware in a storage unit are business personal property. Dallas CAD and Kaufman CAD do not both get the same trailer. The unit's address picks the district. A contract template set to 8.25% does not tell you which district, and the district does not tell you to charge the cap. Keep the storage-unit address on the rendition notes and the 7.75% on the contract. They are neighbors in your week and strangers in the rules. Send the contract template, one completed event's invoice, and the address where the stored goods sit. The first pass edits nothing. It marks the tax percentage on the template against Combine's 7.75%, and it names which appraisal district matches the storage address. You get the template back with the rate called out, the dollar difference on that one invoice between 8.25% and 7.75%, and the district name for the rendition. The marked template comes back before the next contract goes out. After a season of Saturdays, the difference is a stack of small refunds instead of a sentence. Send the template even if you are proud of the design and uneasy about the footer.
Deposits and rented goods are the event-planner guide.
If this is not events, leave this guide and use the industry list.
Book a time and bring the template before you send another contract.