Unlike many states, Texas does not impose a traditional corporate income tax. Instead, it levies a franchise tax, which is a type of gross receipts tax. This means that businesses are taxed based on ...

Once you’ve determined that your business is subject to the Texas Franchise Tax, the next step will be to compute the amount of that tax. Easy, right? Unfortunately, as is often the case, it’s much ...

I’ve posted two blogs that cover the first two steps in computing the Texas Franchise Tax – the computation of “taxable margin” and the computation of the appropriate “apportionment factor.” Those ...

Almost no one likes the Texas franchise tax — for good reason. The tax is what is called a margins tax, owing to a 2007 reform that made the tax more complex, less efficient and more unfair. The ...