Own a Business in Medina County? Your Gear May Owe a Rendition

Texas doesn't just tax the building your business sits in. It taxes the stuff inside that earns income: the tools, machinery, computers, furniture, and inventory. Reporting it is called a rendition, and it runs on Form 50-144, the statewide business personal property form. What you list is whatever taxable personal property you owned or controlled on January 1, the snapshot date the whole appraisal year hangs on.

You file it with the Medina County Appraisal District over at 1410 Ave K in Hondo, where chief appraiser Johnette Dixon's office carries Form 50-144 under the business-personal-property heading on its forms page. The general deadline is April 15, and a late or skipped rendition can draw a penalty stacked on top of the tax, so it's not one to let slide while you wait for a bill that may never come if the district doesn't know your equipment exists.

Opening, closing, relocating, or buying a shop in Hondo, Devine, or anywhere in the county is the moment to get ahead of MCAD rather than wait for a notice. A quick call to (830) 741-3035 settles which form year is current and whether you've got room for an extension before the equipment list is due.