Texas New Business Leads – New LLCs, Sales Tax Permits & TABC Liquor License Filings

Find Texas businesses the week they form, register or open, and bars and restaurants before they open. This Actor pulls four official State of Texas open-data feeds, links records that describe the same business, scores every lead from 0 to 100, and gives you one clean list you can filter. Filter by county, city, ZIP, NAICS industry, date range or name. Turn on monitor mode to get only records you haven't seen before. It's built for daily or weekly schedules, CRM imports and Zapier/Make workflows.

No login, no scraping of protected pages and no proxies. The data comes from the official data.texas.gov Socrata API, published by the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts and the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission (TABC).

What data you get

Source	What it means	Typical buyers
New sales tax permits (Texas Comptroller, Active Sales Tax Permit Holders)	A business location just registered to collect sales tax, usually right before or after it opens. Includes the NAICS industry, outlet address, owner/taxpayer name, mailing address and first-sales date.	Commercial insurance, merchant services/POS, payroll and bookkeeping, signage, commercial cleaning, B2B suppliers, local marketing agencies
Pending TABC license applications	A business has applied for an alcohol permit (mixed beverage, wine and beer, package store, late hours…) and is still in review. This is a pre-opening signal.	Restaurant suppliers, beverage distributors, POS/hospitality tech, security, staffing, insurance
Newly issued TABC licenses	Primary TABC licenses whose original issue date falls in your date window, i.e. newly licensed bars, restaurants and stores.	Same as above, plus market research
New LLCs & corporations (new in v0.2, newEntities)	Newly formed Texas LLCs, corporations, partnerships and nonprofits, plus out-of-state companies registering to do business in Texas. Comes from the Comptroller's franchise-tax file and includes the Secretary of State file number, charter date, entity type, right-to-transact status, address and NAICS code when filed. About 40,000 a month statewide (Jun–Aug 2026).	Business banking, registered agents, accountants and bookkeepers, insurance, payroll, web/marketing agencies, B2B SaaS

Thousands of new sales tax permits are issued every month across Texas. The dataset logged more than 18,000 in September 2026 alone. Lubbock County alone sees roughly 180–250 a month.

New in v0.2: matching, de-duplication and lead score

• Entity details on every permit and license. Each sales-tax-permit holder is looked up by Comptroller taxpayer number, and each TABC owner that is an LLC/Inc/etc. by exact legal name. Rows gain entityTypeName, sosFileNumber, sosCharterDate, sosStatus and rightToTransact. Name matches are accepted only when exactly one Texas entity has that name.
• Cross-source matching. Rows for the same business share a matchKey, and matchedSources lists every source that saw it. For example, a new LLC that also got a sales tax permit and filed a TABC application. matchConfidence is taxpayerNumber when the link is an ID match and name when any link relies on an exact legal-name match.
• One row per business (optional). Set mergeMatches: true to collapse matched rows into one row with an events list and firstEventDate/lastEventDate.
• Lead score (0–100), fully explained. Points for recency, a real selling location (sales tax permit or TABC premises), a pre-opening TABC application, confirmation by 2–3 sources, an active entity and a consumer-facing industry. Points off for PO boxes, missing addresses, holding-company names and registered-agent / virtual-office addresses. Every row lists its leadScoreReasons, e.g. "+20 has a sales tax permit". Sort with sortBy: "leadScore" or filter with minLeadScore.
• Registered-agent detection. New-entity addresses shared by 10+ entities set up in the last year (registered agents, virtual offices) are flagged isLikelyAgentAddress. Drop them with excludeAgentAddresses: true.
• Fully backward compatible. If you don't list sources, you get the same three sources, in the same order, as before. The new source and options are opt-in. Existing fields are unchanged, and new fields are simply added.

Pricing

Pay per result: $3.00 per 1,000 leads ($0.003 per row), plus Apify's standard tiny per-run start fee. You pay only for rows delivered to your dataset. A typical weekly county pull (50–250 rows) costs well under $1. Set a max cost per run and the Actor stops at your limit.

Typical uses

• Weekly new-business lead list for one or more Texas counties (e.g., Harris, Dallas, Travis, Bexar, Lubbock)
• Restaurant and bar opening alerts: combine the NAICS prefix 722 with the TABC sources
• Territory monitoring: schedule daily with onlyNew: true and send results to Google Sheets, HubSpot, Slack or email via Apify integrations
• Market research: count new businesses by industry, city or ZIP over any date range
• New LLC lists by county: sources: ["newEntities"], entityTypes: ["llc"], excludeAgentAddresses: true
• Best leads first: all four sources, sortBy: "leadScore", minLeadScore: 60, mergeMatches: true

Input

Field	Description	Default
sources	Any of salesTaxPermits, tabcPendingApplications, tabcNewLicenses, newEntities	the first three
daysBack	Records dated in the last N days	7
startDate / endDate	Exact window, YYYY-MM-DD (overrides daysBack)	—
counties	Texas county names, e.g. ["Lubbock", "Harris"]	all counties
cities	City names (case-insensitive)	all
zipCodes	5-digit ZIPs	all
naicsPrefixes	e.g. ["722"] restaurants and bars, ["2382"] building equipment contractors, ["8121"] personal care (sales tax source only)	all
nameContains	Substring match on business or owner name	—
onlyNew	Monitor mode: output only records not returned in earlier runs	false
monitorKey	Separate memory per saved search	default
entityDaysBack	Look-back window for newEntities (by SOS charter date). New entities usually appear in the state file about 2 weeks after charter.	30
entityTypes	newEntities only: any of llc, corporation, professional, partnership, nonprofit, other	all
enrichWithEntityData	Add SOS/entity details to permit and TABC rows	true
mergeMatches	One row per business instead of one row per source record	false
sortBy	source (original order), leadScore, or date	source
minLeadScore	Drop rows scoring below this (0–100)	0
excludeAgentAddresses	Drop new entities at registered-agent / virtual-office addresses	false
maxResults	Cap on total records	1000
socrataAppToken	Optional free data.texas.gov app token for higher rate limits	—

Example input:

{
  "sources": ["salesTaxPermits", "tabcPendingApplications"],
  "counties": ["Lubbock"],
  "daysBack": 7,
  "naicsPrefixes": ["722"],
  "onlyNew": true
}

Best-leads example (v0.2):

{
  "sources": ["salesTaxPermits", "tabcPendingApplications", "tabcNewLicenses", "newEntities"],
  "counties": ["Lubbock"],
  "daysBack": 30,
  "mergeMatches": true,
  "sortBy": "leadScore",
  "excludeAgentAddresses": true
}

Output

One row per lead, with the same columns across all sources:

{
  "source": "tabcPendingApplications",
  "sourceLabel": "TABC – pending license application",
  "recordId": "639857",
  "eventType": "TABC application submitted",
  "eventDate": "2026-10-07",
  "businessName": "RUBES SPORT BAR AND GRILL INC",
  "ownerName": "RUBES SPORT BAR AND GRILL INC",
  "address": "4930 S Loop 289 Unit 250",
  "city": "LUBBOCK",
  "state": "TX",
  "zip": "79414",
  "county": "Lubbock",
  "naicsCode": null,
  "industry": null,
  "licenseType": "MB",
  "licenseTypeName": "Mixed Beverage Permit",
  "status": "Pending – In Review",
  "taxpayerNumber": null,
  "firstSalesDate": null,
  "insideCityLimits": null,
  "mailingAddress": null,
  "datasetUrl": "https://data.texas.gov/dataset/...",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-11T17:30:00.000Z"
}

A merged, scored row (mergeMatches: true) adds fields like these:

{
  "businessName": "CLOUDS HOOKAH SPORTS GRILL",
  "ownerName": "CLOUDS HOOKAH LOUNGE CAFE, LLC",
  "industry": "Limited-Service Restaurants",
  "entityTypeName": "Texas Limited Liability Company",
  "sosFileNumber": "0803181847",
  "rightToTransact": "Active",
  "matchedSources": ["salesTaxPermits", "tabcPendingApplications"],
  "matchConfidence": "name",
  "events": [
    { "source": "salesTaxPermits", "eventType": "Sales tax permit issued", "eventDate": "2026-09-14", "recordId": "32069117151-2" },
    { "source": "tabcPendingApplications", "eventType": "TABC application submitted", "eventDate": "2026-09-24", "recordId": "640996" }
  ],
  "leadScore": 90,
  "leadScoreReasons": ["+10 base", "+15 event in last 30 days", "+20 has a sales tax permit (physical/selling location)", "+10 pending TABC application (pre-opening)", "+15 confirmed by 2 sources", "+10 entity active with right to transact", "+10 consumer-facing industry"]
}

Sales tax rows also include naicsCode with a human-readable industry (NAICS 2017/2022 titles), taxpayerNumber, firstSalesDate, insideCityLimits and the taxpayer mailingAddress. Export to CSV, Excel, JSON or XML from the dataset tab, or pull results via the Apify API.

How it works and reliability

• Queries the official Socrata API with server-side filters, so only matching rows are transferred. Runs are fast and cheap.
• Paginates politely (1 second between pages, per data.texas.gov's robots.txt crawl delay), and retries with exponential backoff on rate limits or server errors.
• If one source fails, the others still complete, and per-source stats are saved to the RUN_SUMMARY key-value record.
• County codes are decoded to county names and NAICS codes to industry titles. TABC license codes (MB, BG, BQ, BE, BF, BW, G, P, Q, LH, FB, NT and more) are decoded using TABC's official license-type list.

Notes and limitations

• Data freshness depends on the state agencies. The Comptroller and TABC datasets are typically refreshed daily. New LLCs/corporations show up in the franchise-tax file roughly 2 weeks after their SOS charter date, which is why newEntities looks back 30 days by default. Use monitor mode so each entity is delivered once, as soon as it appears.
• The newEntities address is the address on file with the Comptroller, often a mailing or registered-agent address, and the county filter uses that address. Use isLikelyAgentAddress / excludeAgentAddresses to focus on businesses that list their own address.
• Matching is deliberately conservative: exact taxpayer numbers, or exact legal names (after normalizing punctuation and "LLC/Inc" spellings) that belong to exactly one Texas entity. Sole proprietors are not in the franchise-tax file, so they won't get entity details.
• This data is public record. Some sole-proprietor records contain an individual's name and address. Use it responsibly and follow applicable laws (e.g., CAN-SPAM and TCPA) when contacting leads.
• Contact enrichment (emails/phones) is not included. The data contains only what the state publishes. TABC's phone column is blank in the public files.
• This Actor is not affiliated with the Texas Comptroller, TABC or the State of Texas.

Use with AI agents and automations

Call it from the Apify API, the Apify MCP server (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and other agents), Zapier, Make, n8n or any HTTP client. The output schema is stable and flat, which makes it easy to load into a CRM or spreadsheet.

FAQ

Does it need a login or proxy? No. It uses the public open-data API.

How do I get only new businesses each week? Schedule the Actor weekly with onlyNew: true and the same monitorKey.

How fresh is it? Each run queries the live state datasets, so you get whatever the agencies published as of that moment.

Can I cover all of Texas? Yes. Leave counties empty and raise maxResults (statewide is roughly 15,000–19,000 new sales tax permits and ~40,000 new entities a month).

Can I get new Texas LLCs with their SOS file number? Yes. Use sources: ["newEntities"] (optionally entityTypes: ["llc"]). Each row includes sosFileNumber, sosCharterDate, entityTypeName and rightToTransact.

What does the lead score mean? It estimates how likely a row is a real, newly opening, reachable business. Every point is listed in leadScoreReasons, so you can see exactly why a lead scored 85 or 30.

Will my existing schedules change? No. With the same input you get the same rows in the same order. Rows now carry extra fields (entity details, lead score, matches), and TABC rows may now include the owner's taxpayerNumber when it could be matched exactly.