Businesses May Need to Render Personal Property to Brazoria CAD

Business property tax is not only about land and buildings. The Brazoria Central Appraisal District (BCAD) says that if you own tangible personal property used to produce income (things like equipment, machinery, furniture, and inventory), you must file a rendition listing what you owned on January 1.

The standard deadline is April 15, though you can request a written extension to May 15. Skipping it has teeth: BCAD warns that a rendition filed late, incomplete, or not at all can draw a penalty of 10 to 50 percent of the tax due. A normal income-tax return does not satisfy this — the county appraisal rendition is separate.

If you run a shop, contractor yard, office, restaurant, fleet, or a home-based business with real equipment, pull the right form from BCAD's business personal property forms page before the spring deadline. Questions go to BCAD at 979-849-7792 or brazoriacad.org.