Tax Deadline 2027for Texas owners

The practice is in Dallas

On the call you reach Steven Palmieri, working as a Tax CFO and as the Entrepreneur's CFO, with the 2027 form named before anyone opens May. One practice serves that call, and the practice stays in Dallas. An owner elsewhere in the state joins on video and can put last year's return on the screen. A branch office in your city is not part of this practice.

If the company sits outside Dallas and Fort Worth, we will not pretend the counter is on our block. The month still closes on a video call from the practice in Dallas, whether the books were kept in Amarillo or along the Gulf.

The other pages of this site stay on the federal calendar, because a visitor in any state needs the form on its weekday. Everything here is the May square and the sales tax 20th, set next to the federal weekday that form already claimed. A Panhandle shop and a Gulf shop can circle the same May square. The square does not move because the towns are far apart.

May comes after those two federal days

People ask for the tax day in 2027 and then stop at the federal stack. Monday, March 15, 2027 belongs to Form 1120-S and Form 1065, with the K-1 pages that ride along. Thursday, April 15, 2027 belongs to Form 1040 and to a calendar year Form 1120, and it is also the first estimate of 2027. May is easy to skip because it is not one of those two squares.

May 15, 2027 falls on a Saturday. That Saturday is the ordinary due date of the Texas franchise report for a company that files one. The franchise report is the yearly report a Texas company files for the right to do business in the state. A limited liability company files this report even when it has a single owner, and a corporation files it too. If you never formed a company and you simply work under your own name, May usually stays off your calendar.

When May 15 is a weekend, or when a holiday lands on the due date, the Comptroller moves the report to the next business day. We do not print the replacement weekday on this page. A weekday we typed from memory is how a Saturday gets called a Monday that the chart does not show. The Comptroller chart for the report year is where that shift is confirmed, and we will read the chart with you before anyone treats a guessed day as the day.

Form 4868 and Form 7004 buy months to finish a federal return. Saturday, May 15, 2027, does not slide because a federal file date moved, and neither does any 20th on the sales calendar. More time on the franchise report is a Comptroller matter. A payment, or the Comptroller's own form, has to arrive by the original due date, and the extensions page names the later day. That later day depends on how the company pays, so we do not print it here. A federal extension sticker on the April return does not move May.

A quiet tax year can still need a report

A year when the franchise tax itself is quiet can still require a short report. The Comptroller prints the revenue line that decides whether any tax is due. That revenue cutoff stays on the Comptroller's row for the report year, and this calendar refuses to retype it. A figure from memory is not your year, and the row changes with the report year. Read the Comptroller's own row for the year you are filing.

Under that line, many companies still file Form 05-102, the public information report, or Form 05-167, the ownership information report, unless the Comptroller's skip list already covers them. Form 05-102 is the public report the Comptroller expects from most companies organized in Texas or doing business here, and the Comptroller's own list says which entities use it. A company the Comptroller's list does not name for Form 05-102 signs Form 05-167 instead. Each member of a combined group that belongs in Texas files its own report. Even in a year with no tax to pay, one of those two reports is still due on Saturday, May 15, 2027, unless the Comptroller's skip list already includes the company.

A missed short report can cost the company the right to do business in Texas. That can include the right to bring or answer a lawsuit, and it can put certain company debts on the people who run the company. A quiet tax year is still a year with a page to sign. Form 05-102 needs a signature from someone the company already trusts to sign, and we ask who that was last year rather than invent the name. Form 05-167 tells the Comptroller who owns the entity, and that ownership list is not a public page.

A change in officers after the report goes in waits for the next annual filing, unless an amended report is truly needed for an error or a critical change. Updating the agent who accepts legal papers happens at the Secretary of State, on that office's filing, and the two May reports do not carry the change. Closing the company, or ending the Texas connection, brings a final report, and we read the Comptroller's close instructions with you before anyone picks an order of steps.

The 20th, only if tax was collected

Sales tax is a different square, and only a company that collected it has the square. A new sales tax permit arrives with a letter, and that letter is where we read whether you report every month, every quarter, or once a year. We do not guess that rhythm from the federal Thursday.

When the letter says monthly, you look one month backward and use the 20th that follows the month you collected in. The April report, as one example, looks at May 20. When the letter says quarterly, four months carry the report, each on its own 20th, April, then July, then October, then January. When the letter says once a year, the report for the year that just ended lands on January 20. If the 20th is a Saturday, a Sunday, or a legal holiday, the next working day is the due date. The percent for a given sale lives on the Comptroller sales pages for that period, and copying it here would freeze a number that can change.

A shop that never collected sales tax does not invent a 20th to look complete. If tax was collected and the return was skipped, the 20th is its own conversation, separate from the federal form and separate from May. Form 4868 and Form 7004 do not slide the 20th. A holiday shift is confirmed on the Comptroller due date chart for that year, the same way we refuse to invent a weekday for May.

Wages and the money you take home

Texas does not put a tax on wages the way a state income tax would, and it does not tax the profit an owner takes home as a personal income tax. The Texas constitution bars a tax on a person's income. The balance on wages, and the balance on the owner's own return, stays federal, on the form that already has a weekday on the other pages of this site.

Whoever already runs payday keeps the deposit dates, and this calendar will not reprint those dates next to May. The deposit calendar stays off this page on purpose. A notice about a federal balance is still a different conversation from the day the form is due, and speaking on that notice in your place is outside this practice.

The personal return and the company report can share a year without sharing a day. Thursday, April 15, 2027 can be the household form while Saturday, May 15, 2027 is the company report. Handing both of them the Thursday is how May gets lost. We keep the two squares on the same calendar and we do not merge them.

The month before the report

The report is only as good as the month before it. We close that month against the bank, so the revenue line is a closed month and not a guess typed on the Saturday. An accountant can record that a report went out. The decision we make with you is whether the month was closed, which form is yours, and whether the money for the original day already moved.

The revenue number on the May report begins in the federal return for that same year, then drops the exclusions the Tax Code names. That is why the federal return for the same year belongs on the call even when the worry that brought you here was May. If the books and the bank do not agree, the report is early, no matter how close the federal Thursday looks.

Nothing on this page is a fee, a penalty percent, or a result copied from another file. Weekdays for the federal forms were checked on a 2027 calendar. The Saturday for May 15, 2027 was checked the same way. Confirm the franchise shift on the Comptroller chart, and confirm a federal line on irs.gov, before you rely on either. Your own year end can still move a federal line. It does not turn May into April.

What to have nearby

When May is the reason for the call, have last year's franchise report nearby, and the federal return for the same year. Have the sales tax filings if any were made, including the letter that said monthly or quarterly. Have the month the books closed. Have entity papers if the company was formed, if ownership changed, or if an S election was made during the year.

None of that has to be tidy to start. A missing page tells us as much as a finished one, because the gap is often the month that never closed. If the only missing fact is the weekday, the call can end on that fact. Name the weekday and the month the books closed. Anything that identifies a person, or a copy of a return, waits for the call and never rides in the form.

The federal weekdays, written out by form, live on one day is the wrong ask. Who closes the month lives on who closes the month. This page stays on May, on the 20th, and on the practice in Dallas that reads them with the federal stack.