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TABC: Ports of entry collected about $700,000 during 2025 Paisano season; 2,646 containers disallowed
Summary
TABC officials reported that during the 2025 Paisano season the agency’s ports of entry collected roughly $700,000 in a 12-day period and disallowed thousands of containers; the special response team supported operations in El Paso and Laredo.
TABC officials told the commission that the agency’s 2025 Paisano ports-of-entry operation ran Jan. 1–12 and produced roughly $700,000 in revenue across 22 staffed ports, which the agency said represented about 11% of its annual tax revenue normally collected by ports.
John Rainey, chief of Ports of Entry, reported that Laredo posted two particularly strong days during the operation, collecting approximately $143,000 on each of the first Friday and Saturday of the year. “Our staff collected approximately 11% of our yearly tax rate…
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