Texas Business Entity Search — Franchise Tax Permit Holders

Every entity doing business in Texas holds a franchise tax permit, and the Comptroller publishes the active list. This actor searches it by name or taxpayer number and returns the record — organizational type, SOS charter date and, most usefully, the right-to-transact-business status that says whether the entity is in good standing.

No API key · Official source · Pay only for delivered rows · Same schema across the series

What data do you get?

Field	Description
companyName	Taxpayer name as filed
registrationNumber	Texas taxpayer number
legalForm	Organizational type
status	active when the entity holds the right to transact business
statusRaw	The Comptroller's own SOS status code
rightToTransactBusiness	Whether the entity may currently transact business in Texas
sosFileNumber	Secretary of State file or COA number
incorporatedOn	SOS charter date
responsibilityBeganOn	Date franchise tax responsibility began
address	Mailing address on the permit
city	Mailing city
state	Mailing state
postalCode	Mailing ZIP
county	Texas county code
sourceUrl	Texas Comptroller taxable entity search

Every row also carries query (what you asked for), scrapedAt (ISO timestamp) and, when a lookup fails, error explaining why.

Example output

{
  "country": "US",
  "registry": "Texas Comptroller — Active Franchise Tax Permit Holders",
  "companyName": "DELL TECHNOLOGIES INC.",
  "registrationNumber": "32068849085",
  "legalForm": "CF",
  "status": "active",
  "rightToTransactBusiness": true,
  "sosFileNumber": "0802503716",
  "incorporatedOn": "2016-09-07",
  "city": "ROUND ROCK",
  "state": "TX",
  "sourceUrl": "https://mycpa.cpa.state.tx.us/coa/"
}

Input

{
  "queries": ["Dell Technologies","Tesla","Whataburger"],
  "maxResultsPerQuery": 10,
  "maxConcurrency": 4,
  "includeRaw": false
}

Input	What it does
queries	Entity names (Dell Technologies, Tesla) or 11-digit Texas taxpayer numbers.
maxResultsPerQuery	Caps how many rows one query may produce.
maxConcurrency	How many queries run at once. Lower it if the source starts throttling.
includeRaw	Attaches the source's untouched record under raw, for fields this actor does not map.
requestDelayMs	Politeness delay between requests.
proxyConfiguration	Optional. The Socrata API is open and rarely needs a proxy.

What people use it for

• Texas counterparty checks — right-to-transact-business status is the Texas equivalent of good standing.
• Entity resolution — join the SOS file number to Secretary of State records.
• Territory prospecting — search a keyword and pull every permitted entity that carries it.

Notes and limits

• This is the active permit file — an entity that forfeited its permit drops out of the dataset entirely.
• legalForm is the Comptroller's short organizational-type code (CF corporation, CL LLC, and so on), passed through unchanged.

Where the data comes from

The Texas Comptroller publishes the active franchise tax permit file through the state Socrata open-data API with no key. Source: Texas Open Data — Active Franchise Tax Permit Holders

FAQ

Is this Texas franchise tax scraper free?

The data source is free and needs no API key — you pay only for the rows the run delivers ($0.004 each). Failed or empty lookups are never charged.

Do I need an API key or a login?

No. The Texas Comptroller publishes the active franchise tax permit file through the state Socrata open-data API with no key.

What can I search by?

Both. An 11-digit query is looked up as a taxpayer number; anything else runs a contains-match on the taxpayer name.

How current is the data?

Every run queries the source live, so results are as fresh as the source itself. The Comptroller refreshes the permit file regularly.

How fast is it, and how many queries can I run?

Queries run concurrently (4 at a time by default, tunable in the input). A prefilled run finishes in seconds; large lists scale roughly linearly and stay well inside a normal run timeout.

Can I export the results to CSV, Excel or JSON?

Yes. Apify datasets export to CSV, Excel, JSON, XML and HTML, and can be pulled through the API or pushed to your own storage.

What happens when a query returns nothing?

You still get a row, carrying your original query and an error field explaining why. Nothing is silently dropped, and you are not charged for it.

Is scraping this data legal?

Yes. Texas publishes franchise tax permit holders as open data; permit status is a public record.

Related actors

• New York Business Entity Search
• Colorado Business Entity Search

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