Corpus Christi
Corpus Christi has portions in Nueces, San Patricio, and Kleberg Counties, and the Texas Comptroller's list shows the same 8.25% total in each: the city's 1.375%, 0.5% for the Corpus Christi MTA, 0.125% for Corpus Christi Crime Control, and the state's 6.25%. Texas taxes residential and commercial cleaning alike, with narrow exceptions.
The rate on a Corpus Christi invoice doesn't change from one county portion to the next, but one of the local codes behind it does. This page lists the four pieces, shows where the Kleberg County portion differs, covers which Texas cleaning work is taxable and the state wage, and ends with what it means for your books. Payroll registration and the employee test are on my Texas page.
The Comptroller's city sales and use tax list shows the 8.25% total for all three county portions. Its content carries no effective date; the page metadata was last modified September 24, 2026. The 6.25% state rate comes from the Comptroller's main sales tax page.
Source: Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, Sales and Use Tax
House cleaning and commercial cleaning are both taxable in Texas under the Comptroller's Publication 94-111. The household exemption reaches only a self-employed person providing traditional household services as an employee of the household, not someone working as a subcontractor for a maid service or another third party. Building maintenance bought by a contractor or home builder as part of new residential construction isn't taxable. The rest is on my Texas sales tax page.
Texas adopts the federal rate by reference: $7.25 an hour, effective July 24, 2009, with no change announced as of October 20, 2026 in the sources reviewed, so a change would follow federal law. This page doesn't cover any Corpus Christi city wage rule.
Source: Texas Workforce Commission, Texas Minimum Wage Law
Collected sales tax goes to a liability account, and each taxable invoice keeps the job address it was charged on. If you clean in the Kleberg County portion as well as the others, a different city code on those jobs can look like something went wrong. It didn't. The rate is the same. The total is the same. Only the code changes. The address on the invoice is what tells the jobs apart, so it stays with every taxable one. Labor goes into payroll at the wage actually paid.
I'm a bookkeeper, not a CPA or an Enrolled Agent. I keep the rate and the collected tax recorded by job; whether a job is exempt and how the tax is reported are questions for your CPA.
Rules checked against the sources above as of October 20, 2026. Rates and rules change; confirm current figures with the agency or your CPA.
About Figure Eight Financial
Figure Eight Financial is Dave Gordon’s bookkeeping practice for residential and commercial cleaning companies. I work with owners in Corpus Christi and across the country, and I’m a Certified QuickBooks Online ProAdvisor.
Before bookkeeping I studied computer science at Penn State and spent a career at IBM as an engineer, so I build the books as a system: data comes in once, lands in the right place, and ties back to a statement. I’m a bookkeeper, not a CPA or Enrolled Agent. I keep the books your CPA works from, and the tax decisions stay with your CPA.
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Every Corpus Christi county portion totals 8.25%, so the books hold collected tax as a liability and keep the job address on each taxable invoice to show which local code applies. Payroll goes in at the wage actually paid. Book a short call below and tell me where your Corpus Christi jobs are.
The core service. Transactions recorded and categorized, every account reconciled so the books and the bank agree, and monthly reports that arrive explained, split by residential and commercial and sliceable per contract.
The full picture of how this works for a cleaning companyFor the months where nothing got entered at all. I fill in the missing periods from the ground up, pulling bank feeds, statements, and receipts until every month has a complete set of records.
How catch-up bookkeeping worksFor books that exist but can’t be trusted. I audit what’s there, fix the unreconciled accounts, duplicate transactions, and wrong categories, and tie every balance back to a statement.
How cleanup bookkeeping worksYour crews paid on time, every pay period, with each payroll run recorded in the books so labor shows up against the jobs it belongs to.
How payroll worksRecurring invoices that match your contracts, an aging report you can trust, and follow-up on slow payers handled by a process instead of your evenings. Built for net-60 commercial accounts.
How invoicing and receivables workA file built right for a cleaning company from day one, or rebuilt after the DIY version drifts, and then I teach you to run it. I’m a Certified QuickBooks Online ProAdvisor, and this is honestly my favorite part of the job.
How a proper setup worksWe start with a short call about your business and where the books stand. The first conversation doesn’t cost anything.
I take a look at what you’ve got, your QuickBooks file, your spreadsheet, whatever exists.
You get a written proposal with the price, so the decision is yours with the number in hand.
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Cleaning in more than one county portion of Corpus Christi? Tell me how your invoices record the job address now. The first conversation doesn't cost anything.
