A sales tax filing should describe a month that already happened, not discover the month. The due date comes from the calendar, and a busy week does not move it.
Inside the city the sales tax stack is the state 6.25 percent, plus the city 1.5 percent, plus the county 0.5 percent. Added together that is 8.25 percent. Those figures come from the state locator, not from a story someone heard. If a sale is on the line, the locator wins over the story.
Shops in the city commonly file that stack on the 20th. Gin season can fill the yard and that date still shows up on the calendar. A busy Saturday at the counter does not move it. The set-aside has to exist before that morning, in an amount that matches the period, or the filing becomes a scramble through the bank feed.
Card batches make this worse when the deposit date and the sale date disagree. The filing follows the sales in the period. The bank follows the deposit. Both numbers are true. They are not interchangeable. A close that forces them to be one number will be pretty for a day and wrong by the 20th.
The state franchise report comes due in May. The year the report covers is what picks the rate table. This page will not invent a revenue threshold, a deduction limit, or a shortcut rate from memory. If those figures matter for your year, they get read from the state page for that year, inside the work, not guessed on a marketing page.
Mixed beverage reports, when they apply, also tend to ride a 20th. They are not the same return as the sales tax stack, even when a percentage looks familiar. If your shop pours and also sells goods, say so. The two streams should not share one unlabeled jar.
A filing built on an open month is a guess with a signature line. We would rather file what is known and label what is open than pretend the jar is complete. If a prior period is wrong, we say so before we stack a new one on top. Quiet corrections beat heroic ones.
Owners in Lubbock can keep the locator result, the last three payments, and the month each payment was meant to cover. That packet is the filing conversation. The county page stays with the half. The questions page stays with what to ask before you hire.