Bexar County Tax Assessor-Collector's Office

TABC County Local Alcohol-Permit Fee

Any restaurant, coffee shop, or retail store holding a TABC beer, wine, or mixed-beverage permit in Bexar County — countywide, including inside the City of San Antonio — owes this local fee to the Bexar County Tax Assessor-Collector's Office in addition to the state TABC permit fee paid to TABC directly. The fee is capped by statute at one-half of the Alcoholic Beverage Code's own fee schedule as it stood on August 31, 2021, a fixed historical baseline that TABC's later fee changes do not move. It covers the beer and wine retail permit, the mixed beverage permit, the mixed beverage late-hours permit, and the caterer's permit; a mixed beverage permit holder is billed for it again in the third year of the permit term. The statute's own exemption list excludes local cartage, storage, carrier's, and private carrier's permits from this local fee entirely. New TABC applications are filed with TABC directly; this county portion is paid to or renewed through the Tax Assessor-Collector's Office.