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P.O. Box 149348
Austin, TX 78714-9348
Texas Franchise Tax Forms
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Franchise Tax Notices – April 2025
Form 05-212, Texas Notice of Forfeiture of Right to Transact Business
If you received this notice, you failed to meet franchise tax filing and/or payment requirements. Learn how to resolve this issue and ensure your franchise tax account is current. If your entity’s annualized total revenue for the 2024 report year is at or below the no tax due threshold of $2,470,000, you are not required to file a report, but you still must file either a Public Information Report or an Ownership Information Report. See No Tax Due Reporting for Report Years 2024 and Later.
Form 05-213, Texas Notice of Forfeiture of Registration
If you received this notice, your registration has been forfeited by the Secretary of State's (SOS) office for failure to meet 2024 franchise tax filing or payment requirements. If your entity's annualized total revenue for the 2024 report year is at or below the no tax due threshold of $2,470,000, you are not required to file a franchise tax report, but you still must file either a Public Information Report or an Ownership Information Report. See No Tax Due Reporting for Report Years 2024 and Later. Learn how to resolve this issue and ensure your franchise tax filings and payments are current. Then obtain a tax clearance letter from the Comptroller's office to reinstate your registration at the SOS.
Form 05-285, Franchise Tax Annual Report Filing Notice; or email
The Comptroller’s office sends a letter or an email to all franchise taxpayers as a reminder that May 15 is the due date for franchise tax reports, extension requests, payments and/or Public or Ownership Information reports. See our Franchise Tax webpage for more information about franchise tax.
Downloadable Report Forms for 2025
If you are unable to file using Webfile, use our downloadable .PDF reports, designed to work with the free Adobe Reader. While other browsers and viewers may open these files, they may not function as intended unless you download and install the latest version of Adobe Reader.
Texas Franchise Tax Reports for 2024 and Prior Years
- 2024 report year forms and instructions
- 2023 report year forms and instructions
- 2022 report year forms and instructions
- 2021 report year forms and instructions
- 2020 report year forms and instructions
- 2019 report year forms and instructions
- 2018 report year forms and instructions
- 2017 report year forms and instructions
- 2016 report year forms and instructions
- 2015 report year forms and instructions
- 2014 report year forms and instructions
- 2013 report year forms and instructions
- 2012 report year forms and instructions
- 2011 report year forms and instructions
- 2010 report year forms and instructions
- 2009 report year forms and instructions
- 2008 report year forms and instructions
- Reports Originally Due May 15, 2000 through May 15, 2007
- Reports Originally Due January 1, 1992 through December 31, 1999
- Reports Originally Due Prior to January 1, 1992
- Credit Schedules for Reports Originally Due before January 1, 2008
Additional Franchise Tax Forms
Questionnaires for Franchise Tax Accountability
- AP-114, Texas Nexus Questionnaire (PDF) (for these non-Texas entities: corporations, limited liability companies, partnerships, associations, joint ventures, holding companies, joint stock companies and railroad companies)
- AP-231, Texas Trust Questionnaire (PDF)
- AP-223, Bank Nexus Questionnaire (PDF) (for these entities: Savings and Loans, State Banks, Federal Banks, Savings Banks and Foreign Country Banks)
- AP-224, Texas Business Questionnaire (PDF) (for these Texas entities: partnerships, associations, trusts, joint ventures, joint stock companies and railroad companies)
Unincorporated Political Committee Statement
Status Change or Closing or Reinstating a Business
Certification of New Veteran-Owned Business
Franchise tax report forms should be mailed to the following address:
Texas Comptroller of Public AccountsP.O. Box 149348
Austin, TX 78714-9348