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Readers outside Dallas and Fort Worth are still in this with us. We are all Texans, and the May report does not care which county the kitchen table is in. The practice keeps no second office. Pages move on a shared screen rather than in a car. The named close day stays the named close day on either side of the state.

Look at the home page for the name on this work, Steven Palmieri, and for the monthly close, the payroll setup, and the return. May is read by that same practice, not by a second firm. We keep May on this page so the rest of the site can stay with the federal filing. Everything on this page is the Texas half, which lets the rest of the site speak to an owner whose company is not in this state.

Places the date reminds us of

People pause under the sculpture Eye in front of the Joule, then keep walking. We like that downtown pause the way Texans do. A filing works the same way for us. A filing is finished when a date comes back.

Spring hail shows up when Canadian air meets the Gulf, and the cloud goes green before the ice falls. We know that sky the way Texans do. An extension is the warning on paper. The return still has to leave.

Lockhart Smokehouse in Bishop Arts plates brisket that started in Lockhart, and the line has a rhythm Texans already trust. We can enjoy that plate. The person who reads your paper is still this practice.

University Park fills up on a football Saturday, and the score is a record you can look up the next day. We enjoy that Saturday the way Texans do. The record we want on a company file is an acceptance with a date.

The Dallas Streetcar leaves downtown on the Houston Street Viaduct and lets people off toward Oak Cliff. We like a ride that has a last stop, the way Texans like knowing where they stepped off. A filing needs that last stop too. Arriving with a PDF is not the end. The date has to come back.

NorthPark has been the indoor walk where Northwest Highway meets Central for decades, a Saturday errand the city treats as ordinary. We can enjoy that ordinary the way Texans do. An extension is ordinary extra time. Getting the return out is a second trip.

A winter morning when the highways glaze over is a Dallas lesson every Texan learns, to leave before you meant to. We respect that lesson. A filing date does not require a trip into downtown. The page opens on a phone.

On a Friday the club that used to be the Burn plays in Frisco, and Toyota Stadium is loud enough that the rest of the state can picture it. That Friday noise belongs to the whole state, and we like it from here too. A company file needs a smaller record. An acceptance with a date is enough. A folder of drafts never posts a score.

Adair's in Deep Ellum is the room with burgers, a band, and walls that have been collecting names for years. We can picture that noise the way any Texan who knows the block can. The rooms on that street do not all file the same return. The election is the difference, not the sign on the door.

July here runs highs near 96, and a few afternoons still pass 100. We know that steering wheel heat the way every Texan does. October heat at home does not file the May report, and it does not send anything to the Service. A closed set of books is what lets the franchise estimate and the federal year still be discussed as choices.

What May is, on this side of the calendar

Franchise tax is a privilege tax on a taxable entity formed in Texas or doing business in Texas. Publication 98-806, read with the franchise pages, names limited liability companies, including single member companies, among the entities that file. A sole proprietorship that is not a company is on the list of entities that do not. The certificate you already have is why May exists.

For the 2026 and 2027 report years the Comptroller prints a no tax due threshold of $2,650,000, a tax rate of 0.375 percent for retail or wholesale, and a tax rate of 0.75 percent for other entities. Owners owe that Texas report on the fifteenth of May. When that date lands on a Saturday, a Sunday, or a holiday, the Comptroller page moves the report to the following business day. Those figures are the Comptroller's, not a guess, and they live at comptroller.texas.gov/taxes/franchise/.

Texas has no personal income tax. That sentence does not retire the franchise report. A confirmation from that agency does not fill a federal date, and a federal date does not fill May. We keep them on one calendar and in two piles. Margin, the compensation limit, and the EZ computation are choices inside that Texas report. They are not a substitute for the return the election named.

The Texas report arrives in May whether or not the federal return is extended. The monthly close still has to happen while that search goes on. Payroll setup waits until we know whether wages belong on this company. Those are three tracks, and we will tell you which one is urgent.

Why the two piles get mixed

Both papers feel like the filing. Both can produce a confirmation. Only one of them is the Service. We give Texas its own place on the calendar and we do not let a Comptroller confirmation satisfy a question about an EIN, an election, or a federal return. The reverse is also true. A federal acknowledgment does not prepare the May report. A calendar on this site does not create an affiliation with the Comptroller. The confirmation is a paper we read with you. It is not a seal we issue.

Inside the Texas report, margin is a choice among four computations: seventy percent of revenue, revenue less the cost of goods sold, revenue less compensation, or revenue less one million dollars. None of those four is a federal election. An unfinished month would turn whichever of the four you pick into a guess. A closed month is what makes the chosen computation a number you can defend.

Publication 98-806 describes a $50 charge for a late report in a year when the tax itself is zero. We mention that charge so May is not treated as optional. No price for the May report appears on this page.

Picture a Texas owner who saved every PDF the software offered and never saved the page that came back. The stack looks serious. Bank statements, a draft return, a copy of an election someone meant to send, a state certificate. None of those pages carries the date that means the Service received a send. No name belongs on that picture, and no dollar amount that would point at one person.

What to send if you want May read

Send the confirmation if you want that Texas place filled, and send the federal date separately if you have it. If May was extended, say whether the extension payment was made and through which channel. Entities with larger prior year tax pay electronically, and the Comptroller's extensions page is the source for those rules. We will read your paper against that page rather than against memory.

No Texas personal income tax is a true sentence. It does not erase May, and it does not erase a federal return. We say both in the same breath so nobody leaves with half the calendar. The federal work continues on its own track. The books stay there, payroll setup stays there when the election calls for it, and so do the statements and the return. May sits beside that track. It does not replace it.

If typing is the wrong tool, use the footer number and ask for the person who reads May papers. These pages never print a place you could drive to. Put the page on a screen and stay where you are. Nobody here asks for the folder to be walked into a building.

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