Agreement 0003115, filed with the Texas Comptroller by Dallas County, Texas.
Where a deadline above has passed, no public record exists of whether it was met — not in the Comptroller’s filings, nor in the local government’s own disclosures. That is not evidence of non-compliance. Texas requires nobody to record it.
A local abatement waives only that taxing unit’s share of the property tax bill. School districts, counties, cities and hospital districts each sign separately.
| Field | Value & quoted source | Page |
|---|---|---|
| Granting body | Dallas County, TexasDallas County, Texas (“County”), duly acting by and through its Commissioners Court | 4 |
| Contracting entity | Vistaprint Manufacturing Texas LLCVistaprint Manufacturing Texas LLC, a Texas limited liability company (“Vistaprint”) | 4 |
| Parent / guarantor | Becknell Industrial LLCBecknell Industrial LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“Owner”) | 4 |
| Instrument | Tax Abatement AgreementThis Tax Abatement Agreement (“Agreement’) | 4 |
| Governing chapter | Chapter 312, Tax Code, and Chapter 381, Local Government Codeacting by and through its authorized officers for the purposes and considerations stated below: WITNESSETH: WHEREAS, the County has adopted a Tax Abatement Policy (“Policy’), by the passage of Dallas County Commissioners Court Order 2017-0035 on the 3rd day of January, 2017, that contains the guidelines and criteria used to determine the provision of tax abatement assistance from the County under | — |
| Capital investment | Not stated in the agreement | — |
| Grant or incentive | Not stated in the agreement | — |
| Jobs committed | 200Subject to the firm creating 200 new full-time-equivalent jobs | 1 |
| Wage requirement | $40,000the creation of 200 jobs with a median salary of $40,000 | 2 |
| Square footage | 200,000-square-footthe construction of a new 200,000-square-foot building | 2 |
| Acreage | 31.101 acrescontaining 31.101 acres or 1,354,748 square feet of land | 16 |
| Performance deadline | January 1, 2021increasing the County’s tax base by at least $29 million no later than this same J anuary 1, 2021 effective date | 1 |
| Expiration | Not stated in the agreement | — |
| Effective date | August 7, 2018This Tax Abatement Agreement (“Agreement’) is made and entered into as of the 7th day of August , 2018 | 4 |
| Signatory | Christian VaillantName: _ Christian Vaillant | 15 |
| Chain status | Terminal document — no later agreement in the registry names this one as its predecessor | — |
Agreement 0003115 is filed with the Texas Comptroller. Pull the PDF, go to the page number beside any row, and read the sentence. If a figure here does not match the document, tell me and it is corrected the same day.
Where the contract says nothing, the field is left empty rather than filled with a guess.
This is a single agreement. I have read 1,645 of the 4,428 Texas has filed, resolved which have been superseded, and recorded what each commits a company to.
Send me an entity and a county and I will tell you what is on it — quoted, page-cited, checked. Free for the first one.