New Sales Tax Permits in Texas

DayOneLead tracks Texas businesses receiving new sales tax permits. We have logged 111,934 permits so far, spread across 1,475 cities and towns. 12,442 of those permits were issued in the last 30 days. Each record is pulled from the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts and enriched with owner and contact details where we can verify them.

New business activity is heaviest in Houston (11,429), San Antonio (5,993), and Austin (5,051). Hundreds of smaller cities add sales tax permits every week too, so the full city list below runs well past the busiest few.

By industry, the most common new Texas businesses are Restaurant, Food & Beverage, and Bakery. Open any category inside a city to see only the records that match, or browse the latest statewide records further down the page. The most recent sales tax permit we recorded was on Aug 15, 2026.