Tex. Tax Code § 160.121 · Subchapter E. DISPOSITION OF TAXES
AMOUNT OF TAX SENT TO COMPTROLLER.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) Except as provided by Subsections (b) and (c), on the 10th day of each month, each tax assessor-collector and the department shall send the money collected from taxes imposed by this chapter to the comptroller.
(b) A tax assessor-collector shall retain five percent of the taxes collected by the tax assessor-collector under this chapter as fees of office to be retained or paid into the appropriate county fund from which salaries are paid as provided by law and used to defray the costs of collection required under this chapter. As a minimum amount for the fees of office collectible, a tax assessor-collector is entitled to retain $5 for each of the first 100 transactions processed in each fiscal year.
(c) Five percent of the taxes collected by the department under this chapter shall be deposited to the credit of the game, fish, and water safety account and used by the department for the administration of this chapter.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., 1st C.S., ch. 5, Sec. 7.01, eff. Oct. 1, 1991. Amended by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 679, Sec. 67, eff. Sept. 1, 1993.
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