School and sales
CPA Round Rock Alternative on school and sales tax
A school notice and a sales tax form can land in the same week as the doubled fee. School, sales, franchise, rendition, and the hotel tax are below, each with the page it came from.
See the rates
The public rates an owner in Round Rock still has to meet
A school rate describes every block in the city, and it does not belong to one house. We keep those public figures beside the monthly close so a date is not a rumor. Round Rock ISD reaches about 94.59 percent of the blocks inside the city, using 2020 census blocks rather than a promise about one lot. The 2025 total school rate is 0.8931 per 100 dollars of taxable value. Maintenance and operations are 0.7101. Interest and sinking are 0.183.
The school rate and the share of blocks come from the Texas Comptroller school district workbook, checked in September 2026. The 94.59 percent figure counts census blocks inside the city limits and says nothing about one lot.
State sales tax is 6.25 percent. Local pieces can add as much as 2 percent. The combined rate stops at 8.25 percent. The sales tax return for a month is filed by the 20th of the month after. The city portion is 2 percent under local code 2246022. The locator stack we use shows no transit authority beside that city rate on the Williamson slice or the Travis slice. The named total is 8.25 percent. A weekend festival does not move the 20th.
Sales tax rates and the local code are from the Comptroller sales tax pages, read with the locality notes.
Reports covering 2026 and 2027 do not owe franchise tax when revenue stays under 2,650,000 dollars. Retail or wholesale is 0.375 percent. Other businesses are 0.75 percent. Put 15 May on the calendar for that franchise report and leave it there. Use the rate for the year being filed, not the rate you remember from a prior year. A contractor and a shop do not automatically share a rate. The entity's actual activity picks it.
The franchise threshold and the two rates are from the Comptroller franchise page, read in September 2026.
Rendition is usually due on 15 April. A written request can push rendition from the middle of April to the middle of May. If the city line is crossed, Williamson Central and Travis Central are different districts. A list prepared for one is not automatically a list for the other. We ask before we assume the lot sits in a single district.
The rendition dates follow the Comptroller property tax deadline calendar and Tax Code section 22.23, checked in September 2026.
Hotel tax in the city is 9 percent, made of 7 plus a 2 percent venue piece, and it is due on the last day of the following month. Airbnb and Vrbo do not remit the city's hotel tax for you. If a property is on those platforms, the owner still has the return. That surprise belongs in the close of the month the stay happened, not in a note discovered at the return.
Round Rock ISD is also the Friday night story a lot of families keep, stadium lights and a band you can hear from the parking lot. Every Texan who grew up on that calendar knows the feeling of a Thursday that is already about Friday. We share it as Texans. We do not claim a place in those stands. The rate above is the part the books can use. Pride does not change 0.8931, and the rate does not shrink the pride.
How this meets the permit fee is simple. The fee is a job cost. The school rate is a property fact. Sales tax is a filing on the 20th. Franchise is a May report. Rendition is an April list. Hotel tax is its own return if you are in that business. A close that knows which of those the month actually contains will not stuff a permit fee into a sales tax payable account because both happened to be paid to a government.
None of these figures is advice for a parcel we have not seen. Confirm the district and the rate for the year you are filing. If a number here goes stale, the page should change, not grow a footnote that whispers.
A close in a month when sales tax is due should show the taxable sales, the 8.25 percent, and the date the return will be filed. Mixing that payable with a permit fee is a classic mess, because both payments go to a government and both can look like tax in a hurried coding. They are not the same animal. One is a trust amount collected from customers. The other is your cost of starting a job. A balance sheet that keeps them apart will survive a question from a partner. A single bucket called taxes will not.
Franchise in May is the report owners postpone because April already felt like a finish. The books do not get a vacation between the two. If the revenue band is near 2,650,000 dollars, know that before 15 May rather than on the evening of the 14th. Retail and wholesale at 0.375 percent and other activity at 0.75 percent are different enough to matter, and a contractor who also sells parts needs an answer about which activity the entity actually is. We will ask. The form on the state site will ask too.
Hotel tax is the one people skip because a platform looks official. A platform that does not remit the city's 9 percent leaves the owner holding the return, due on the last day of the following month. If you have a room, a casita, or a whole house on a short stay, put the question on the close checklist every month, not only in the month a guest complains. The permit fee page will not remind you of this. The month has to.
A partner who asks which government payment was which should be able to see the answer on the close, not in a memory of the week. The permit fee, the sales tax, and the hotel tax each keep their own line.
Rates in hand
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