Most Texas manufacturers have tens of thousands of dollars in sales and use tax they overpaid to vendors on exempt equipment, parts, and supplies — sitting in their last four years of invoices. We find it and recover it. You only pay if we do.
Texas exempts most of what you buy to make your product — under Tax Code §151.318. But the overpayments pile up anyway, quietly.
Suppliers add sales tax to protect themselves — even on machinery, repair parts, and consumables that qualify for the manufacturing exemption.
The tax is scattered across thousands of Grainger, Fastenal, MSC, and utility invoices. AP pays them; no one checks them against the exemption.
You can only claim a refund for four years from the date of payment. Every quarter, more of your money ages out for good.
A straightforward, risk-free process built around your approval.
We review a sample of your accounts-payable data at no cost and show you exactly what's recoverable — and the dollar figure.
We document each overpayment against §151.318, prepare the refund claim and schedules, and handle the Comptroller correspondence.
Nothing is filed until you review and approve it. Claims go in your name; we act under a limited power of attorney.
The state issues your refund or credit. We're paid a percentage of what you actually recover — never a dollar more.
Texas manufacturers, roughly $20M–$300M in revenue, with real equipment and supply spend:
We run audit-safe recovery: we assess your compliance position first, prefer well-documented vendor-direct claims, and only file defensible positions. The large majority of refund requests process without an audit.
We work on contingency — a percentage of what you actually recover. No recovery, no fee. We bill only on the prior-period money we get back for you, not on future savings.
No. Reverse sales/use-tax recovery is a specialty most CPA firms don't run — which is exactly why these overpayments sit untouched. We work alongside your existing accountant.
Tax paid in error on manufacturing machinery, repair and replacement parts, processing consumables, qualifying utilities (via a predominant-use study), and packaging — anything exempt under Texas Tax Code §151.318 that you were charged tax on.
Send us a note and we'll set up a free, no-obligation recovery review on a sample of your invoices. If the number isn't worth your time, you've lost nothing.
Email us for a free reviewjaylun@lonestartaxrecovery.com