Fort Worth, Texas
Fort Worth's 8.25% combined sales tax rate on taxable cleaning is built from four pieces: the state's 6.25%, the city's 1%, 0.5% for the Fort Worth MTA, and 0.5% for Fort Worth Crime Control. The Comptroller lists that total in the Tarrant and Denton county portions. Texas taxes residential and commercial cleaning, with narrow exceptions.
The total matches what the Comptroller lists for Dallas and Austin, but Fort Worth splits its local share differently, with a half-percent transit piece and a half-percent crime control piece. This page walks through the four pieces, the county portions, the Texas rule on supplies, and how the books hold all of it.
Those add to 8.25%. The Comptroller's sales and use tax page says local taxes can add up to 2% on top of the state rate, for a maximum combined rate of 8.25%, and Fort Worth's three local pieces come to that full 2%. For comparison, my Dallas page shows a 1% city rate and a 1% Dallas MTA piece making up the same 2%.
Source: Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, Sales and Use Tax
The Comptroller lists matching rows for the Tarrant County and Denton County portions: code 2220031, a 1% city rate, the MTA and Crime Control pieces, and an 8.25% total. It also lists two combined areas, Fort Worth/Parker County and Fort Worth/Wise County, each listed at 1% with the same two pieces under it and the same 8.25% total. No effective date appears in the list's content.
Texas taxes residential and commercial cleaning alike under Publication 94-111, with narrow exceptions covered on my Texas sales tax page. The same publication says a cleaning business owes tax on the supplies it consumes, while items left for customer use may be bought for resale.
Collected tax goes to a liability account, never into revenue. Supplies your crews use up go on one expense line, and items you leave for customers go on another, since the publication treats them differently. When a month closes, I want to tie every single dollar of that sales tax liability back to the Fort Worth invoice that created it. Payroll registration and the Texas minimum wage are on my Texas page.
I'm a bookkeeper, not a CPA or an Enrolled Agent. Whether an item qualifies for resale, and how the tax is reported, goes to 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 Fort Worth 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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Fort Worth's rate is one number on the invoice and four pieces behind it. Collected tax is recorded as a liability that ties back to invoices, consumed supplies and customer-use items sit on separate lines, and labor goes in at the wage actually paid. Book a short call below and walk me through a typical Fort Worth month.
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 Fort Worth and want the tax, the supplies, and the payroll on the right lines? Tell me what your books look like now. The first conversation doesn't cost anything.
