# Texas New Business Leads - Sales Tax Permit Holders (`pink_comic/texas-new-business-leads-sales-tax-permits`) Actor

Find new Texas businesses from the Comptroller's daily Active Sales Tax Permit Holders file. Filter by permit date, city, ZIP, NAICS industry or name. Get owner name, mailing and outlet address, NAICS and first sales date.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/pink_comic/texas-new-business-leads-sales-tax-permits.md
- **Developed by:** [Ava Torres](https://apify.com/pink_comic) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, Business, Agents
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

from $2.00 / 1,000 business results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## Texas New Business Leads - Sales Tax Permit Holders

Get **brand-new Texas businesses** from the Texas Comptroller's official **Active Sales Tax Permit Holders** file on data.texas.gov (about 890k active outlets, refreshed daily). Every business that sells taxable goods or services in Texas needs a sales tax permit, so new permits are one of the earliest public signals that a business just opened.

Each result includes:

- business (outlet) name and legal taxpayer name, taxpayer number and outlet number
- organization type (LLC, corporation, sole owner, partnership...)
- **permit issue date** and **first sales date**
- **NAICS industry code**
- outlet address, city, ZIP, county code, inside/outside city limits
- taxpayer mailing address

Results are newest permit first. No API key, no CAPTCHA. Pricing: **$0.002 per business + $0.0001 start**.

```json
{ "issuedAfter": "2026-10-01", "cities": ["Austin", "Round Rock"], "naicsCodes": ["7225"], "maxResults": 200 }
```

```json
{ "names": ["taqueria"], "zipCodes": ["770"] }
```

### Use cases

New-business lead generation for merchant services, POS, payroll, insurance, banking, B2B supplies, signage, marketing and accounting; territory planning by NAICS and ZIP; KYB checks on a Texas taxpayer number.

### Limits

This is point-in-time public data from the Comptroller. It lists active permits only and has no phone or email. Confirm details with the [Comptroller permit search](https://comptroller.texas.gov/taxes/permit/search/). Names are matched as substrings.

### Related

- [Texas Business Leads](https://apify.com/pink_comic/texas-business-leads)
- [TDLR Texas Professional License Search](https://apify.com/pink_comic/tdlr-texas-professional-license-search)
- [Business Entity Search (multi-state)](https://apify.com/pink_comic/us-business-entity-search)

# Actor input Schema

## `query` (type: `string`):

Quick single business or owner name search (contains match). Leave blank for the newest permits statewide.

## `names` (type: `array`):

Business (outlet) or taxpayer names, contains match, case-insensitive.

## `issuedAfter` (type: `string`):

Optional YYYY-MM-DD. Use a recent date to get brand-new businesses.

## `cities` (type: `array`):

Outlet city, e.g. 'Houston', 'Austin', 'San Antonio'.

## `zipCodes` (type: `array`):

Outlet ZIP code or prefix, e.g. '78701' or '787'.

## `naicsCodes` (type: `array`):

NAICS code or prefix, e.g. '7225' restaurants, '238' specialty trades, '4411' auto dealers, '812' personal services.

## `countyCodes` (type: `array`):

Comptroller 3-digit county code, e.g. '101' Harris, '057' Dallas, '227' Travis, '015' Bexar.

## `organizationTypes` (type: `array`):

Comptroller organization type codes, e.g. 'CL' LLC, 'CT' corporation, 'IS' sole owner, 'PL' partnership.

## `taxpayerNumbers` (type: `array`):

11-digit Texas taxpayer numbers for exact lookup.

## `maxResults` (type: `integer`):

Maximum total paid dataset items, split across search terms. The default returns 10 permits (about $0.0201 including the start event).

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "query": "",
  "names": [],
  "issuedAfter": "",
  "cities": [],
  "zipCodes": [],
  "naicsCodes": [],
  "countyCodes": [],
  "organizationTypes": [],
  "taxpayerNumbers": [],
  "maxResults": 10
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

Dataset items.

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "query": "",
    "names": [],
    "issuedAfter": "",
    "cities": [],
    "zipCodes": [],
    "naicsCodes": [],
    "countyCodes": [],
    "organizationTypes": [],
    "taxpayerNumbers": [],
    "maxResults": 10
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("pink_comic/texas-new-business-leads-sales-tax-permits").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "query": "",
    "names": [],
    "issuedAfter": "",
    "cities": [],
    "zipCodes": [],
    "naicsCodes": [],
    "countyCodes": [],
    "organizationTypes": [],
    "taxpayerNumbers": [],
    "maxResults": 10,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("pink_comic/texas-new-business-leads-sales-tax-permits").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "query": "",
  "names": [],
  "issuedAfter": "",
  "cities": [],
  "zipCodes": [],
  "naicsCodes": [],
  "countyCodes": [],
  "organizationTypes": [],
  "taxpayerNumbers": [],
  "maxResults": 10
}' |
apify call pink_comic/texas-new-business-leads-sales-tax-permits --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,pink_comic/texas-new-business-leads-sales-tax-permits"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/RUN8GxHqK9nSdd6Ba/builds/yeLxEeazesHJxRl4x/openapi.json