Harris County
Harris County Tax Assessor-Collector's Office, Special Permit Taxes
In short
Harris County Tax Assessor-Collector's Office, Special Permit Taxes issues 1 permit we publish for Harris County, last verified 2026-09-27. Each carries the fee as the agency publishes it, with a link to the schedule it was read from.
What this agency issues
| Permit | Issuing agency | Fee | Renews | Last checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alcoholic Beverage Permit — Harris County Local Fee | Harris County Tax Assessor-Collector's Office, Special Permit Taxes | A county local fee equal to one-half the corresponding state Alcoholic Beverage Code fee, collected by the Harris County Tax Office alongside the state TABC permit. Selected categories, shown as new/renewal (beer & wine) or 1-year/2-year (liquor): Retail On-Premise Beer & Wine (BE) $1,000/$750; Retail Off-Premise Beer & Wine (BF) $60/$60; Wine & Malt Beverage Retailer (BG) $1,000/$750; Wine & Malt Off-Premise (BQ) $60/$60; Brewpub (BP) $500/$500; Package Store (P) $250/$500; Wine-Only Package Store (Q) $37.50/$75; Wholesaler (W) $937.50/$1,875. The Tax Office's own page lists further distributor, brewer, warehouse and specialty categories at their own rates. | 1 or 2 years, tied to the underlying state TABC permit term; cannot be renewed earlier than 30 days before expiration | 2026-09-27 |
Fees shown as a range or formula are set that way by the issuing agency — we do not average them into a single number.
About each permit
Alcoholic Beverage Permit — Harris County Local Fee
Unlike Engineering's and HCFMO's unincorporated-only permits, this fee is countywide, including inside the City of Houston: it is a state-statute county surcharge riding on the state TABC permit, not a Harris County ordinance limited to the unincorporated area. The initial application goes to TABC directly; renewals of the county portion go to the Harris County Tax Office. A Mixed Beverage (MB) permit is exempt from this local fee for its first three years under Alcoholic Beverage Code §11.38(d), and the Tax Office's own fee chart shows asterisks rather than a figure for MB; the fee that applies to an MB permit after the three-year exemption ends is not published on that chart, so none is stated here — contact the Harris County Tax Office, (713) 274-8150.
Contact
- Jurisdiction
- Harris County
- Phone
- Not verified — use the website
Contact details are taken from the agency’s own site or its published fee schedule. Where we have not verified a phone number we leave it blank rather than guess.
Sources
Every fee and term above was read from one of these government pages on the date shown.
- Alcohol permit local fee schedule (beer, wine and liquor, by TABC permit type and term)Harris County Tax Assessor-Collector's Office · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-27
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