Texas Enterprise Zone Program

Businesses with operations in Texas that build, expand, modernize, or renovate facilities with existing or new jobs may overlook significant opportunity to refund state sales and use tax expenses through the Texas Enterprise Zone Program (EZP).

Unlike most states, Texas’s EZP doesn’t require businesses to be located within an enterprise zone to be eligible, nor are workers required to be onsite to meet requirements—making it possible for any Texas-based facility meeting the program’s job count and investment requirements to be eligible.

Applying to Texas’s highly competitive EZP is, however, a complex, deadline-driven process that can quickly overwhelm in-house teams. Delegating this work to our team of experienced professionals can streamline the application process, prevent missteps that delay refunds, and help facilitate successful results.

Offset Your Business Expenses

Leveraging this refund opportunity allows Texas-based operations to recover capital investment and hiring costs associated with expansion, growth, modernization, and ongoing maintenance.

Participating in the Texas EZP can result in a refund up to $2,500 per employee—subject to limitations—with additional benefits for companies making large capital investments over a five-year period.

However, nomination from the local jurisdiction is required and there is a limited number of designations available in each jurisdiction.

Position Your Application for Success

Our EZP professionals can guide you through the entire program to help expedite claiming your refund.

Execute a Successful Application

With only four deadlines per year, submitting a successful EZP application is critical to receiving refund dollars as quickly as possible.

From collating personnel data to interfacing with local jurisdictions, our professionals deliver end-to-end support and management throughout the application process returning time to your team and facilitating acceptance into the program.

Boost Annual Refund Dollars

Claiming a refund for each of the program’s allocated five years requires detailed compliance reporting involving complicated data comparisons and tracking.

Our professionals match EZP process experience and your specific situation to create timely compliance reporting that can allow you to claim refund dollars year after year.

Drive Long-Term Savings

Though each award designation lasts a maximum of five years, you may reapply to the program whenever your designation expires. Retaining a Texas EZP designation to keep receiving its benefits over time involves an extensive renewal process with tight deadlines and detailed reporting requirements.

Leverage our professionals’ experience and insight to keep your current EZP designation without disrupting operations or the refund flow.

Deep EZP Experience Based in Texas

Deeply immersed in more than 30 industries, our state and local tax professionals provide solutions specific to the nuances, challenges, and operations of the sector in which you work—while customizing plans to meet your unique needs.

Our EZP specialists bring extensive knowledge and experience to the Texas application process, including personal connections with local jurisdictions, a proven method for developing successful applications, and a local presence that allows them to respond in person when needed.

Our one-firm approach allows your organization to tap into the full resources of our firm, integrating guidance and solutions related to other integral support areas including finance, tax, and audit concerns, state and local tax services as well as credits and incentives needs.

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