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  2. Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation - Wikipedia

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    The E. O. Thompson State Office Building houses the headquarters of the TDLR. The Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation (TDLR) is a state agency of Texas. TDLR is responsible for licensing and regulating a broad range of occupations, businesses, facilities, and equipment in Texas. [1]

  3. Use tax - Wikipedia

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    t. e. A use tax is a type of tax levied in the United States by numerous state governments. It is essentially the same as a sales tax but is applied not where a product or service was sold but where a merchant bought a product or service and then converted it for its own use, without having paid tax when it was initially purchased.

  4. Independent contracting in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The distinction between independent contractor and employee is an important one in the United States, as the costs for business owners to maintain employees are significantly higher than the costs associated with hiring independent contractors, due to federal and state requirements for employers to pay FICA (Social Security and Medicare taxes) and unemployment taxes on received income for ...

  5. Economy of Texas - Wikipedia

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    The state sales tax is set at 6.25 percent. [27] Cities are allowed to impose an additional 1% tax, and additional taxes not to exceed 1% may be approved by voters for any combination of county sales tax, transportation districts, economic development, and/or crime prevention. The average sales tax in Texas amounts to 8.25 percent.

  6. Sales taxes in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The Texas state sales and use tax rate is 6.25% since 1990, but local taxing jurisdictions (cities, counties, special purpose districts - which includes "fire control" and "crime control" taxes levied by a city for those specific purposes only, and transit authorities, but specifically not including school districts) may also impose sales and ...

  7. Taxation in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Taxation in the United States. The United States has separate federal, state, and local governments with taxes imposed at each of these levels. Taxes are levied on income, payroll, property, sales, capital gains, dividends, imports, estates and gifts, as well as various fees. In 2020, taxes collected by federal, state, and local governments ...

  8. Texas Real Estate Commission - Wikipedia

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    Texas Real Estate Commission. The Texas Real Estate Commission (TREC) is the state agency that governs real estate practices in the state of Texas. The agency is headquartered at 1700 North Congress in Austin. [1] TREC is composed of nine members appointed by the Governor with the concurrence of the Texas Senate.

  9. Sales and use tax - Wikipedia

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    Related titles should be described in Sales and use tax, while unrelated titles should be moved to Sales and use tax (disambiguation). Sales and use taxrefers to: Sales tax. Use tax. Topics referred to by the same term. This disambiguationpage lists articles associated with the title Sales and use tax. If an internal linkled you here, you may ...