Bookkeeping Service Dallas Sales tax and the 20th

Three parts inside one batch

A sales deposit collected in the city includes the state, the city, and DART. DART is Dallas Area Rapid Transit. If that third part stays buried in the food line, the deposit and the report will not match.

Filing day is the 20th. The month should already be closed by then, and the split should already be in the books. The morning of filing day is a poor time to discover that a batch is still one unnamed line.

You file the sales tax report. Steven Palmieri keeps the split in the books so the report has a true set of parts to file.

April is a different report

The business property list goes to the appraisal district for the county where the assets sit, and it is due in April. A written ask to that office can slide the April date into May. It is a different date from the sales tax filing.

Shelves in one county and a mailing address in another mean the property list follows the shelves. The sales tax report still follows the sales. April's property list is filled from months the bank already agrees with, and we do not invent a shelf count from the mailing address. You sign the list that goes to the district.

Lower Greenville on a Saturday

Lower Greenville is the restaurant stretch of Greenville Avenue between Mercedes Avenue and Belmont. A Saturday on that avenue is one we share with you, tables and all, and those extra card batches still have to split before filing day.

Those batches split the same way as a Tuesday. A full patio is not a reason to leave DART inside the food line. Filing day does not move because the avenue stayed busy.

What the bank shows and what the books show

A card batch lands at the bank as one deposit. Inside it are the sales, the state part, the city part, and DART. The books have to show those parts even when the bank shows one line.

You still file the report. The split stays in the books so the report and the bank can be compared the same afternoon.

If a batch from a busy week is still one line on the morning of the 20th, the month is not closed. A screen that looks finished can still be wrong.

Show weeks use that same filing day

When the Fair is on, a Fair Park shop's September deposits swell. The swell is still just sales. We name it in the month it landed, so the twentieth is no surprise.

Fair weeks pull extra deposits into rooms near the fairgrounds. Those deposits are coded the same way as a quiet week. The hall being full does not create a later filing day.

When a show fills the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center, nearby rooms fill too. We code the extra deposits from the statement, so you do not have to remember which night was the busy one.

The property list in April and the franchise report in May read those same closed months. None of them invent a figure the statement does not support.

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