A Franklin tax office in Cool Springs

County

Williamson County

Property tax (per $100 assessed, 2025)

1.27 + 0.296 = 1.566 (2.0633 inside the Franklin Special School District)

Sales tax, combined

9.75%

County Trustee

Karen L. Paris · Franklin

Assessor of Property

Brad Coleman · Franklin

Population, 2020 → 2024

83,548 → 89,142

State and city business tax

Filed with the TN Department of Revenue

Straight-line distance

Home of the office, 256 Seaboard Lane

Sources: TN Comptroller, TN Department of Revenue, U.S. Census Bureau. Details

Haven’s office is at 256 Seaboard Lane, Suite G-102, in the Cool Springs office district off Mallory Lane, and clients meet the co-founders there. Mike Swartz is a CPA and Chris Bryant holds the CFP® mark, so the return and the thinking behind it are discussed at the same table. Franklin itself kept growing: 83,548 residents at the April 2020 census base, an estimated 89,142 by July 2024.

The old site names the parts of the process as “onboarding, meeting cadence, timely communications, and ongoing educational content.” Between meetings, documents move through Haven’s secure client portal. Planning is included with every personal tax return the firm files, so each return ends with a look at the year that follows.

A Franklin home’s rate depends on whether it sits inside the Franklin Special School District. For tax year 2025, the Comptroller’s Tax Aggregate Report lists 1.566 per $100 of assessed value outside the district, Williamson County’s 1.27 plus the city’s 0.296, and 2.0633 inside it, made of a county rate of 1.18, the same city rate and the district’s own 0.5873.

The spread between the two is 0.4973 per $100 assessed. Two houses with identical assessments on opposite sides of the district line get different bills, and that gap belongs in the budget for any move within the city.

Williamson County Trustee Karen L. Paris collects the tax from 1320 West Main Street, Suite 203, and Assessor of Property Brad Coleman sets values from Suite 300 of the same building. Those offices handle the bill and the value; Haven handles the return and the tax planning around it.

A Franklin business with $100,000 or more in gross receipts registers for Tennessee business tax and files with the Department of Revenue, which has administered both the state and city parts since January 1, 2010. The return is due on the 15th day of the fourth month after the fiscal year ends, and the minimum tax is $22.

Smaller operations fall under a separate rule. Receipts over $3,000 and under $100,000 call for a minimal activity license from the county or city clerk, with a $15 fee. Williamson County no longer levies a business tax of its own; Tennessee counties stopped on January 1, 2014.

Franchise and excise tax is a separate state return, due April 15 for a business that keeps a calendar year. Haven prepares these state filings next to the federal one as part of business tax preparation.