Texas property tax rendition software, built from your own register

By 15 April of the tax year, under Texas Tax Code section 22.23(a). A written request to the chief appraiser moves the deadline to 15 May under section 22.23(b), and a further fifteen days is available for good cause at the chief appraiser’s discretion. Failing to file on time carries a penalty of ten percent of the taxes imposed, under section 22.28(a).

For tax years from 2026, income-producing tangible personal property is exempt up to $125,000 of value per location per taxing unit, under Texas Tax Code section 11.145 as rewritten by House Bill 9 of the 89th Legislature and authorized by the constitutional amendment approved in November 2025. It is automatic and does not require an application. An owner who is under it may certify rather than render, under section 22.01.

From the Texas Comptroller’s own percent-good schedule for the tax year, transcribed by a tool that reads the published document and writes one file per year. It refuses to overwrite a year already transcribed, so a figure cannot drift between years or be corrected from memory.

Not always. Where the property at a location is valued at less than $20,000 the short schedule on Form 50-144 asks for a category total rather than an itemized list. Steda works out which locations qualify and sets out the workpaper for the schedule that applies.

No. Steda prepares the rendition and the workpaper behind it. You or your tax agent file it with the appraisal district.

Not yet. The statutory configuration, the forms and the depreciation schedules are Texas only today. Another state is on the roadmap without a date.

The rendition register is one of the four in Steda Registers, at $199 a month for the first entity and $129 for each additional entity, with 1,000 assets included per entity. There is no per-return charge.