El Paso, Texas
Taxable cleaning in the City of El Paso carries an 8.25% total rate, and El Paso County's name appears in it twice: the city's 1%, 0.5% for the El Paso County Transit Department, and 0.5% for El Paso County itself, on top of the state's 6.25%. Texas taxes residential and commercial cleaning, with narrow exceptions.
El Paso's local share splits between the city, a county transit department, and the county. This page breaks out the three local codes, notes what the Comptroller's list does and doesn't show, and covers what it means for your books.
Add the state's 6.25% and the three come to 8.25%, the figure in the El Paso row's Total Rate column. The Comptroller's list shows no effective date in its content; the page metadata was last modified September 24, 2026.
House cleaning and office cleaning are both taxable in Texas under the Comptroller's Publication 94-111, and the exceptions are narrow. They're on my Texas sales tax page.
Collected tax goes to a liability account, never into income, and each taxable invoice keeps the rate that was charged on it. A rate nobody has looked at since the software was first set up is one I'd rather test than trust. Before 8.25% goes into the books, the three El Paso codes get checked against the Comptroller's list, and a list with no effective date in its content is exactly the kind of source I check again later. Labor is recorded at the wage you actually pay; 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 El Paso rate and the collected tax recorded; 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 El Paso 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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El Paso's 8.25% is built from three local codes plus the state rate, and the Comptroller's list shows no effective date. Collected tax is held as a liability tied to the invoice it came from, and the rate in the books gets checked against the current list. Book a short call below and show me how an El Paso invoice reads 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.
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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Running cleaning crews in El Paso and want the sales tax recorded the same way on every invoice? Tell me how your invoicing is set up. The first conversation doesn't cost anything.
