Texas does not authorize counties or cities to levy a separate parking tax. Dallas County does not impose a parking-lot or commercial parking tax. Parking transactions face only the standard 8.25% combined sales tax (6.25% state plus 2% local) under Texas Tax Code Chapter 151.
Unlike San Francisco, Pittsburgh, or Chicago, Texas does not allow counties or cities to layer a dedicated parking tax on commercial parking lots or garages. Texas Tax Code Chapter 151 includes parking lot and garage services in the 6.25% state sales tax base, and local sales tax up to 2% layered by city, transit authorities like DART, and special purpose districts brings the typical combined Dallas County rate to 8.25%. Dallas County itself does not levy a county sales tax. Privately operated event-parking and airport-parking transactions follow the same sales-tax framework. Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport and Love Field set their own parking rates as proprietary fees rather than tax.
Parking operators who fail to collect or remit the 6.25% to 8.25% sales tax under Tax Code 151.0101 face Comptroller penalties: 5% to 10% late plus interest, and possible misdemeanor referral. Dallas County has no separate parking-tax regime.
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