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Texas Comptroller Business Records

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Search active Texas franchise taxpayers and sales-tax permit holders.

texasbusiness-standingfranchise-taxsales-taxpermitsentity
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What you can ask

  • “What does Texas Comptroller Business Records have for the area or asset I'm working on?”
  • “Pull the most recent Texas Comptroller Business Records records and put them in a table.”
  • “What does Texas Comptroller Business Records cover, and how fresh is the data?”

About this source

Texas active franchise-taxpayer and sales-tax permit records from data.texas.gov. Search by legal name or exact taxpayer/SOS identifiers, preserve raw standing codes, and distinguish not-found from inactive or nonexistent.

Connector ID texas-comptroller

Provenance

PublisherTexas Comptroller Open Data
Sourcehttps://data.texas.gov/
API basehttps://data.texas.gov/resource
Docshttps://dev.socrata.com/foundry/data.texas.gov/9cir-efmm

Freshness & coverage

FreshnessScheduled — The upstream open-data portal publishes current active datasets without a guaranteed cadence.
GeographicTexas
Temporal… → present — Current active franchise-taxpayer and sales-tax-permit records; inactive history is outside these datasets.
AuthenticationNo credentials required

Caveats

  • ⚠ Open-data results are not certificates of account status.
  • ⚠ No result means not found in the current active dataset.

› Methods (4)

Technical detail for developers: parameters, pagination, units, and freshness per method.

  • searchFranchiseTaxpayers

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    Search active franchise taxpayers by name or exact business identifier.

    Required paramstaxpayerNumber or name or sosFileNumber
    Entitiesbusiness, franchise-taxpayer
    Paginationoffset (offsetField: offset, limitField: limit)
    FreshnessScheduled

    Requires taxpayerNumber, name, or sosFileNumber.

  • searchSalesTaxPermitHolders

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    Search current Texas sales-tax permit holders and outlets.

    Required paramstaxpayerNumber or name or outletName
    Entitiesbusiness, sales-tax-permit
    Paginationoffset (offsetField: offset, limitField: limit)
    FreshnessScheduled

    Requires taxpayerNumber, name, or outletName.

  • getTaxpayerStanding

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    Combine franchise and sales-tax evidence for one taxpayer number.

    Required paramstaxpayerNumber
    Entitiesbusiness, business-standing, sales-tax-permit
    Paginationnone
    FreshnessScheduled

    Use searchFranchiseTaxpayers for taxpayerNumber; confirmed live 2026-09-05.

  • getServiceInfo

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    Describe datasets, methods, codes, and no-result semantics.

    Entitiesservice-metadata
    Paginationnone
    FreshnessScheduled (source-level)