San Antonio, Texas
Taxable cleaning in San Antonio's Bexar County portion carries 8.25%: the state's 6.25%, the city's 1.125%, 0.375% for the San Antonio ATD, and 0.5% for the San Antonio MTA. A separate San Antonio/Medina County listing also shows the 1.125% city rate and an 8.25% total. Texas taxes house and office cleaning alike, with narrow exceptions.
In Bexar County, San Antonio's local share arrives in three uneven pieces, and none of them is a round 1%. This page covers those pieces, the Medina County listing, the Texas minimum wage your labor costs start from, and what it all means for your books.
On the Comptroller's city sales and use tax list, San Antonio's Bexar County listing carries local code 2015012 and a 1.125% city rate. Under it sit the San Antonio ATD at 0.375% and the San Antonio MTA at 0.5%. Those three come to 2%, and with the state's 6.25% the total is 8.25%; the Comptroller notes that the total includes the state rate. A separate San Antonio/Medina County listing shows the same 1.125% city rate and an 8.25% total.
Source: Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, City Sales and Use Tax (read October 21, 2026)
Under Publication 94-111, both residential and commercial cleaning are taxable in Texas. The exceptions are narrow, and they're laid out on my Texas sales tax page.
Texas adopts the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour, effective July 24, 2009, per the Texas Workforce Commission. No change had been announced as of October 20, 2026 in the sources this page draws on, and since Texas adopts the federal rate by reference, a change would follow federal law. That's the floor, not necessarily what you pay. The job profitability estimator shows what a single job leaves once labor goes in at the wage your crews actually earn.
Source: Texas Workforce Commission, Texas Minimum Wage Law
Sales tax you collect on a San Antonio job is recorded as a liability, not income. When the month closes, every single figure on that liability report should trace to an invoice you can open, with the 8.25% that was charged on it. Labor goes in at the wage actually paid, not the $7.25 floor, so job costs show what the work really cost. Payroll registration is on my Texas page.
I'm a bookkeeper, not a CPA or an Enrolled Agent. I keep the San Antonio tax and labor numbers recorded; whether a job falls under an exception, 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 San Antonio 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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In Bexar County, San Antonio's local share comes in three pieces that, with the state's 6.25%, make an 8.25% total. Collected tax is held as a liability that traces back to the invoices it came from, and labor is recorded at the wage your crews are paid rather than the state floor. Book a short call below and tell me how a San Antonio month looks in your books.
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 San Antonio and not sure your sales tax liability matches your invoices? Send me a recent month. The first conversation doesn't cost anything.
