The Texas Supreme Court recently released opinions in three Texas franchise tax/margin tax cases. All three opinions address the applicability of the Texas franchise tax’s cost of goods sold subtraction to costs incurred by taxpayers in specific industries. Below, we discuss the industry-specific rulings in each case, and then consider what the cases, taken as […]
The 83rd Regular Legislative session is at an end, and the Legislature passed many changes to the Texas franchise tax in the session’s final hours. The bill that included most of these changes was HB 500. I previously covered the House version of this bill, as well as the very different Senate version. The Legislature worked out […]
Last week, the House passed HB 500, a major revision to the Texas franchise tax. This is the first indication of what changes may be in store for the Texas franchise tax, or margin tax, in 2013. Below is a fairly complete list of all of the changes that HB 500 includes. Of course, the […]
