Dallas, Texas
Taxable cleaning in Dallas carries an 8.25% combined sales tax rate in all five of the city's county portions: Collin, Dallas, Denton, Kaufman, and Rockwall. That's the state's 6.25%, the city's 1%, and 1% for the Dallas MTA. Texas taxes residential and commercial cleaning alike, with narrow exceptions.
Dallas reaches into five counties, and a cleaning owner could fairly ask whether the tax changes when a crew crosses a county line inside the city. On the Comptroller's city list, it doesn't. Below are the rate and its pieces, where the Texas exceptions fit, the city's paid sick leave ordinance, and what all of it means for your books.
The Texas Comptroller's city sales and use tax list shows Dallas at a 1% city rate under local code 2057011 in each of its five county rows, and each row is followed by a 1% Dallas MTA line. Add the state's 6.25% and all five come to 8.25%. The list shows no effective date in its content; the page was last modified September 24, 2026.
Source: Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, Sales and Use Tax
House cleaning and commercial cleaning are both taxable in Texas, per the Comptroller's Publication 94-111. The household exemption is narrow: it applies only to a self-employed person providing traditional household services as an employee of the household, not to a cleaner working as a subcontractor for a third party such as a maid service. The other exceptions are on my Texas sales tax page.
Dallas adopted a Paid Sick Leave Ordinance, and the City's own page says a court has permanently blocked it.
Source: City of Dallas, Fair Housing and Human Rights, Paid Sick Leave: Employee Resources
Sales tax you collect on a Dallas job goes to a liability account, never into income, because it was never yours to keep. And the tax line on a Dallas invoice isn't just a percentage. It's the state's 6.25%, it's the city's 1%, it's the Dallas MTA's 1%, and it's a record of which taxable job each of those dollars came from. Labor goes in at the wage you actually pay, and the job profitability estimator shows what a single job leaves once labor is counted. Payroll registration and the Texas minimum wage are on my Texas page.
I'm a bookkeeper, not a CPA or an Enrolled Agent. I keep the Dallas numbers straight in the books; whether a job falls under an exemption, and how the tax gets 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 Dallas 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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Taxable Dallas work brings one combined rate, 8.25%, in all five of the city's county portions. Collected tax gets recorded as a liability tied to the invoice it came from, apart from your cleaning income, and labor goes in at the wage your crews are actually paid. Book a short call below and show me how a Dallas invoice looks today.
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.
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