Texas New Business Leads – New Sales Tax Permits Daily

Every business that starts selling anything taxable in Texas must first register a sales-tax permit with the Texas Comptroller. This Actor turns that register into a same-week new-business lead feed: one normalized lead per newly permitted outlet, with the owner's mailing address, exact NAICS industry, legal form, and two enrichment layers list brokers don't ship — franchise/SOS standing + business age (deterministic taxpayer-number join against the Comptroller's Active Franchise Taxpayers register) and operator history (is this a first-time entrepreneur or an existing operator opening location #7?).

All data comes from official Texas open-data registers (data.texas.gov) — public records, no scraping of private platforms, safe to store, use and resell.

Why buyers use it

• Merchant services / POS / payments — reach a business the week it registers, before the first card terminal is installed.
• Business insurance (BOP, GL, workers' comp) — new permits = new policies; NAICS + legal form pre-qualifies the book.
• Payroll, banking, accounting, telecom, signage, suppliers — every new business buys these in month one.
• B2B data teams — 888k-record active-permit archive with daysBack up to 365 for aged-list builds.

Commercial "new business lists" retail for roughly $0.25/record (e.g. business mailing lists at $124.95 per 500). This Actor charges $0.02 per lead — about 12× cheaper — and it's fresher: you pull straight from the register on your own schedule.

Measured numbers (live run, 2026-07-14)

Metric	Measured
New permits, trailing 30 days	13,519
New permits, trailing 365 days	170,130
Active-permit archive depth	887,984 outlets
Business name / street / city / ZIP fill	400/400 (100%)
NAICS code + industry sector fill	400/400 (100%)
Legal form (org type) fill	400/400 (100%)
Franchise/SOS match on entity leads (LLC, corp, partnership)	298/317 (94%)
SOS charter date (business age) when matched	296/298
Owner personal name (sole proprietors)	83/400 (21%)
Operator history (multi-location / tenure) computed	400/400 (100%)
Multi-location operators flagged in sample	54/400 (13.5%)
First-time operators flagged in sample	346/400 (86.5%)

What it does NOT have: phone numbers or emails — the Texas registers don't publish them. Vendors who sell "new business leads with phones" are appending third-party contact data you typically can't legally reuse or resell. Every field here is native public record.

Input

Field	Type	Default	Notes
daysBack	integer	7	Permit-issue window, 1–365. Use 1–7 as a fresh feed, 90–365 for aged lists.
naicsPrefixes	array	[]	Server-side industry filter. 722=restaurants, 23=construction, 44/45=retail, 8121=salons, 484=trucking, 54=professional services.
cities	array	[]	Outlet city filter (case-insensitive), e.g. HOUSTON.
zipPrefixes	array	[]	Outlet ZIP prefix filter, e.g. 77 (Houston), 787 (Austin).
orgTypes	array	[]	llc, corporation, soleProprietor, partnership, nonprofit, financialInstitution, association, trust, government.
includeOutOfStateOwners	boolean	true	~2–5% of new permits are TX outlets owned from out of state.
includeGovernment	boolean	false	Cities/school districts hold permits too; excluded by default.
enrichFranchise	boolean	true	Franchise/SOS register join (standing, charter date, business age).
operatorHistory	boolean	true	Multi-location + tenure signals from the permit archive.
maxItems	integer	—	Hard cap on pushed leads.
onlyNewSinceLastRun	boolean	true	Scheduled runs only emit (and charge for) permits not seen before.

Output record

One flat JSON object per newly permitted outlet:

• Identity — businessName, outletName (DBA), ownerName (sole props: the owner's personal name), taxpayerNumber, orgType/orgTypeCode/orgGroup, isSoleProprietor
• Location — street, city, state, zip, countyCode, insideCityLimits, plus the owner's mailing address (ownerStreet/City/State/Zip, isOutOfStateOwner)
• Industry — naicsCode (6-digit, 100% fill), naicsSector (plain-English sector)
• Timing — permitIssueDate, firstSalesDate, permitAgeDays
• Franchise/SOS enrichment — franchiseMatch, franchiseStanding (Active / Forfeited / …), sosFileNumber, sosCharterDate, sosStatus, businessAgeYears, franchiseTaxBeganDate
• Operator history — activeOutletsCount, isMultiLocation, operatorFirstPermitDate, operatorTenureYears, isFirstTimeOperator

Example (real record from the verification run):

{
  "businessName": "AW LOGSON LLC",
  "outletName": "AW TIRE",
  "orgType": "Texas Limited Liability Company",
  "street": "2747 RIGSBY AVE",
  "city": "SAN ANTONIO",
  "zip": "78222",
  "naicsCode": "441320",
  "naicsSector": "Retail Trade",
  "permitIssueDate": "2026-07-11",
  "franchiseStanding": "Active",
  "sosCharterDate": "2016-08-17",
  "businessAgeYears": 9.9,
  "activeOutletsCount": 1,
  "isFirstTimeOperator": true
}

Pricing (Pay-Per-Event)

Event	Price
query (once per run)	$0.01
new-business-lead (per pushed lead)	$0.02

A daily schedule with onlyNewSinceLastRun costs ≈ $9/month for every new business in Texas (~450/day), or a fraction of that with NAICS/city filters.

FAQ

How fresh is the data? The Comptroller refreshes the register about weekly (measured: max issue date 3 days behind refresh). Run daily with onlyNewSinceLastRun: true and you'll emit each batch the day it lands, without double-charging.

Why no phones/emails? Not in the public record. Everything this Actor ships is native registry data you can legally store and resell.

What's isMultiLocation good for? It separates a first-time entrepreneur (86.5% of leads) from an established operator expanding to a new location — different pitch, different value. businessAgeYears (from the SOS charter date) does the same for entities that existed before this outlet.

Sole proprietors? 21% of leads are sole proprietors where ownerName is the actual person who owns the business — the decision-maker, at their mailing address.

Restaurants and bars? Filter naicsPrefixes: ["722"]. For established bars with actual monthly alcohol revenue, see our companion Actor texas-bar-restaurant-leads (Mixed Beverage Gross Receipts). For just-financed businesses see ucc-filing-leads; for new trucking companies with 100% phone fill see fmcsa-new-carrier-leads.

Is this legal to resell? Yes — Texas government open data (data.texas.gov, datasets jrea-zgmq and 9cir-efmm), published for public reuse.