Texas Agriculture and Timber Tax Exemption Registrations with Address and Permit Data

Agriculture and Timber Exemption Registrations is a dataset from data.texas.gov, published via the Socrata platform. It contains registration records for sales tax exemptions on qualifying agriculture and timber purchases, as required by Texas House Bill 268. The dataset was last updated on April 3, 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyze geographic distribution of exemptions using AgTimber City, AgTimber State, and AgTimber ZIP columns.
• Track permit status and validity over time using Permit Status, Permit Issue Date, and Permit Expiration Date.
• Link business entities to their registration addresses using Taxpayer Name, Master Street Address, and Master City.
• Validate or deduplicate registration records using unique identifiers like Exemption Number and Master ZIP+4.

Strengths

• Dataset is updated regularly, with a last update timestamp of 2026-04-03 07:01:51.
• Provides 15 distinct columns covering business, address, and permit details.
• Available in multiple machine-readable formats including CSV, JSON, XML, and RDF.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

data.texas.gov

Collection Method

Registration records collected as a result of Texas House Bill 268.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-03 07:01:51.

Geography

Likely focused on the state of Texas, based on the source organization and column names referencing states and ZIP codes.