A Business Capital in North Texas
Dallas had about 1.33 million residents in the Census Bureau's 2025 estimate, making it the third largest city in Texas, and it anchors a metro area of more than eight million people. The city stretches across five counties: Dallas, Collin, Denton, Kaufman and Rockwall. It is home to the headquarters of companies such as Southwest Airlines at Love Field and Texas Instruments, large banking and investment campuses, the Texas Stock Exchange, the UT Southwestern medical campus and the Dallas Market Center, one of the country's largest wholesale marketplaces. BOMCAS works with Dallas businesses and households remotely.
Statewide rules on franchise tax, sales tax, property tax and payroll are summarised in the Texas overview; this page turns to Dallas.
How Dallas Is Taxed
There is no state or city income tax. Businesses file the Texas franchise tax report, collect 8.25 percent sales tax inside the city, including 1 percent for DART, and pay property tax to the county, city, school district and other units. Each of the five counties has its own appraisal district, so a business with locations across the city may render property to more than one. Hotel stays carry 15 percent in state and city tax.
Clients We Serve
Our Dallas clients include companies that relocated from other states, investment managers and family offices, law, consulting and engineering firms, real estate developers and owners, showroom tenants and sales agencies, restaurant groups in Deep Ellum, Bishop Arts and Uptown, technology companies and families whose income comes from executive pay, equity awards and investments.
Neighbourhoods and Business Districts
Downtown and the Arts District hold corporate offices and law firms, Uptown and the Victory Park area hold financial firms and restaurants, and the Design District and Market Center serve wholesale trade. The Medical District around UT Southwestern and Parkland employs thousands, Love Field anchors aviation businesses, and North Dallas along the tollway is full of offices and professional practices. Southern Dallas, around Oak Cliff and the Inland Port area, has seen new warehouses and small businesses.
Restaurants, Events and Visitors
Dallas also has a large hospitality trade. Restaurants and bars cluster in Deep Ellum, Lower Greenville, Bishop Arts and Uptown, the convention centre and Fair Park host events through the year, and the State Fair of Texas brings vendors from across the state each autumn. These businesses deal with sales tax, mixed beverage tax, tips and seasonal staff, and many operate several concepts through separate entities.
New Arrivals
A large share of our Dallas work begins with a move. A family arrives from California with options and a house to sell; a company opens its new headquarters while still filing in Illinois; a Canadian business sets up its first U.S. office. In each case the first year is the most complicated, and planning before the move saves money and effort.
Growth Around the City
Dallas sits at the centre of rapid growth. Suburbs to the north such as Plano, Frisco and McKinney have drawn corporate campuses, and many Dallas businesses now have offices, warehouses or stores in several cities at once, each with its own local tax rate and, in some cases, a different appraisal district. Families often live in one county and work in another. That spread is one reason we set up records by location from the start.
Important Dates
- April 15: renditions due to each county's appraisal district.
- May 15: franchise tax report and Public Information Report.
- May 15, or 30 days after the notice: usual protest deadline.
- January 31: property tax bills due.
Working With BOMCAS
Our work is online: secure document uploads, video meetings and cloud accounting. We do not give legal advice or represent clients at appraisal hearings or before tax authorities, but we prepare the returns, schedules and figures that clients and their attorneys and advisers need. Most new Dallas clients start with a short call and a review of the last two years of returns.
How BOMCAS Helps in Dallas
Dallas clients often start with bookkeeping across several entities, sales, mixed beverage and hotel tax and payroll for teams in more than one state. Each year we prepare business returns and franchise tax reports and personal returns, including part-year issues after a move, and use them for planning around sales, gifts and growth. Clients with missed filings can begin with back taxes and late filing, and Canadian companies and families will find cross-border tax help.
Outside Dallas, the same work is explained statewide on our pages about business returns, individual returns, sales and use tax, bookkeeping, payroll, tax planning, catching up on back taxes and Canada–U.S. tax.
Dallas Questions
Do you have a Dallas office?
No. BOMCAS serves Dallas clients remotely with secure uploads, video calls and cloud accounting.
What is the sales tax rate in Dallas?
8.25 percent, including 1 percent for DART.
Can you help with a move from another state?
Yes, including the part-year return in the old state and the federal return after arriving.
Do you work with investment firms?
Yes, including management companies, general partner entities and family offices.
Talk to BOMCAS About Your Dallas Taxes
On the Gulf Coast, our Houston pages deal with energy companies and their contractors, the port and the ship channel, the Texas Medical Center, MUD and flood-zone property questions and Houston's 17 percent hotel tax.
In south-central Texas, our San Antonio pages cover Joint Base San Antonio households and contractors, River Walk hospitality, the Toyota supplier park, Eagle Ford royalties and family and business ties to Mexico.
West of Dallas, our Fort Worth pages cover aerospace and rail employers, the AllianceTexas logistics hub and its freeport inventory, Barnett Shale royalties on city lots, ranching families and the Stockyards hospitality trade.
In the capital, our Austin pages focus on tech employees with stock compensation, startups and founders, state employees, University of Texas faculty and students, licensed short-term rentals and the city's music and film freelancers.
Write to BOMCAS about your Dallas company or household and we will answer with next steps and what we need to prepare a quote. Use the contact page or the form below, call 780-667-5250 or email info@bomcas.ca. You can find every Dallas service on the Texas overview. This is general information, not advice for your own situation.