Business Property guides
Short, source-linked answers for practical filing decisions.
What is business personal property tax?
A practical explanation for small businesses preparing a simple asset-register packet.
January 1 situs for business property tax
Why the January 1 snapshot controls many simple business personal property packets.
Texas business personal property exemption: $125,000 per location since 2026
What the HB 9 exemption changes for a small Texas business, what you still file by April 15, and when a full rendition is still required.
Texas Form 50-144 business personal property rendition
The core fields to collect for a simple Texas business personal property rendition packet, and when the $125,000 certification replaces the full rendition.
Texas rendition deadline, extension, and penalty
Texas generally uses an April 15 rendition deadline for most property, with written extension paths and late penalties.
Multnomah County CPPR deadline, owner RMV, and late penalty
What simple renewal-style users should know about the Confidential Personal Property Return lane.
Fairfax County business tangible property filing deadline
A focused guide to Fairfax County's May 1 lane for Furniture & Fixtures and Computer Equipment.
Fairfax original cost and depreciation schedules
How Fairfax County applies published percentage schedules to supported business tangible property categories.
Business personal property asset register template
Template columns and example rows for a simple local business personal property packet.
Do fully depreciated assets still go on business personal property returns?
A practical guide to fully depreciated business assets, local property tax returns, source records, and when not to delete old equipment from the asset register.
Do home office assets count for business personal property tax?
A practical guide for small businesses with home office assets: January 1 situs, owned equipment, local return scope, and hard-stop cases.
Business property tax assets to exclude or hard-stop
Common asset categories that should not be forced into the simple ordinary-owned-assets packet.
Business Property Desk supported jurisdictions and hard stops
Which jurisdictions Business Property Desk supports, what is not supported yet, and where the official or professional workflow should take over.
How Business Property Desk uses official sources
How the product turns local government sources into a narrow business personal property packet workflow.
What to keep in a business property annual passport
The carry-forward record that makes next year's local business property packet easier to review.
Fairfax business tangible property asset list example
A concrete Fairfax County asset-list guide for small businesses preparing business tangible property records before filing.
Multnomah CPPR existing account and owner RMV
A narrow guide for existing Multnomah County CPPR accounts with user-supplied owner real market value and ordinary business assets.
Missed the Texas Form 50-144 rendition deadline: what now?
What a small business should check after missing a Texas business personal property rendition deadline.
Do computers and laptops go on a business personal property return?
How small businesses should think about computers, laptops and office equipment in supported business property tax packets.
Leased vs owned equipment on business property tax returns
Why leased equipment can change a business personal property return and when to stop the self-preparation workflow.
Texas Form 50-144 inventory, supplies and equipment
A Texas business personal property asset-class guide for Form 50-144 source records.
Texas business personal property historical cost vs good-faith value
A source-record guide for Texas rendition cost support and owner value estimates.
Fairfax fully depreciated computer equipment
A Fairfax County guide for computers, laptops and equipment that are fully depreciated but still used in the business.
Fairfax business property disposed before January 1
A Fairfax County disposed-asset checklist for small businesses preparing business tangible property records.
Multnomah CPPR SmartFile letter for existing businesses
A Multnomah County CPPR account-access guide for existing businesses with renewal-style records.
Multnomah CPPR leased or rented property hard stop
A Multnomah County CPPR hard-stop guide for leased, rented, consigned, and borrowed property facts.
Texas Form 50-144 extension request before April 15
A pre-deadline Texas rendition guide for written extension requests, appraisal district status, and packet boundaries.
Texas business personal property situs in one county
A Texas situs hard-stop guide for businesses with assets across multiple counties, locations, customer sites, or mobile equipment.
Fairfax furniture and fixtures vs computer equipment
A Fairfax County category guide for desks, fixtures, laptops, monitors, printers, and ordinary office equipment.
Fairfax business tangible property appeal hard stop
A hard-stop guide for Fairfax County business tangible property assessment disputes, appeals, corrections and notices.
Multnomah CPPR sale, closure or move hard stop
A Multnomah County CPPR hard-stop guide for businesses that sold, closed, moved, or changed ownership.
Business property tax vehicle-only hard stop
A cross-jurisdiction hard-stop guide for businesses whose only property question is a vehicle, truck, trailer, aircraft, boat or other transportation asset.
Which states tax business personal property? 2026 map
A dated table of states we checked against official sources: whether business equipment is taxed, the small-business threshold, the form and the deadline, and what Business Property Desk covers.
Business personal property tax exemptions by state
Small-business exemptions compared from official sources, with the filing each state still asks for.
Oregon business personal property return: due March 15
The statewide Confidential Personal Property Return: who files, when, what is taxable, the cancellation threshold, penalties, and which Oregon counties our packet covers.
How business personal property tax is calculated
The three numbers behind a business personal property tax bill, with a Texas and a Fairfax County example.
Is business personal property tax deductible?
Where the tax goes on the federal return, how it differs from the cost of the equipment, and why the SALT cap does not apply.
Texas BPP rendition by county: where and how to file
What is statewide in a Texas business personal property rendition, and how six large appraisal districts accept it.