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Dates that belong to this city.
Sales tax inside Arlington is 8.25 percent. That is the state 6.25 percent plus the city's own 2.0 percent. The county does not add a slice, and a transit authority does not add one either. A job delivered outside the city is a different question, and we ask it before a return copies the city rate onto every invoice.
Returns for most filers are due on the 20th. A smaller filer on a quarterly rhythm still lands on the 20th, in April, July, October, and January. The close for that period has to be done early enough that the return is a reading of the file, not a reconstruction the night before.
A Rangers or Cowboys game night can drop a pile of weekend deposits into Monday, and those deposits still need a category before the month can close. Money that cleared on a Monday still belongs to the weekend it was earned, and we put that category on it before the 20th so the return is reading a month that already closed.
April is when the Tarrant Appraisal District expects the business personal property rendition. The district sets the values on the tax bill for property in Arlington, appraises for the taxing jurisdictions in the county, and mails a Notice of Appraised Value. The fixed asset list in the books should agree with the list you sign. We do not guess a property tax rate on this page.
May is the franchise report, due on 15 May, including a year when nothing is owed. The no-tax-due line on this cycle sits at 2,650,000 dollars. Retail and wholesale use 0.375 percent past that receipt line. Other activity uses 0.75 percent. Your facts pick the side. The report does not pick it for you.
Those dates are why the monthly work has to be real before the 20th or the 15th arrives. A return prepared the night before is a reconstruction. A return prepared from a month that already closed is a reading. A category added after the return is already filed is a correction, and we would rather make it while the month is still open.
