US Sales Tax Calculator
Calculate sales tax for any US state, 2026 rates. Add tax to a price or work backwards from a tax-inclusive total, with local rates included.
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California allows local sales taxes on top of the 7.25% state rate. Check a receipt or your county's rate and enter the difference here.
Result
- Combined rate
- 7.25%
- Pre-tax price
- $100.00
- Sales tax
- $7.25
- Total
- $107.25
State base rates, 2026. Your exact combined rate depends on local city, county, and district taxes — verify with your state Department of Revenue for invoices and filings.
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State-level base rates for all 50 states and DC. In states marked “Yes”, cities and counties add local taxes on top, so the rate at the register is usually higher.
| State | State rate | Local taxes? |
|---|---|---|
| Alabama | 4% | Yes |
| Alaska | None | Yes |
| Arizona | 5.6% | Yes |
| Arkansas | 6.5% | Yes |
| California | 7.25% | Yes |
| Colorado | 2.9% | Yes |
| Connecticut | 6.35% | No |
| Delaware | None | No |
| District of Columbia | 6% | No |
| Florida | 6% | Yes |
| Georgia | 4% | Yes |
| Hawaii | 4% | Yes |
| Idaho | 6% | Yes |
| Illinois | 6.25% | Yes |
| Indiana | 7% | No |
| Iowa | 6% | Yes |
| Kansas | 6.5% | Yes |
| Kentucky | 6% | No |
| Louisiana | 5% | Yes |
| Maine | 5.5% | No |
| Maryland | 6% | No |
| Massachusetts | 6.25% | No |
| Michigan | 6% | No |
| Minnesota | 6.875% | Yes |
| Mississippi | 7% | Yes |
| Missouri | 4.225% | Yes |
| Montana | None | No |
| Nebraska | 5.5% | Yes |
| Nevada | 6.85% | Yes |
| New Hampshire | None | No |
| New Jersey | 6.625% | No |
| New Mexico | 4.875% | Yes |
| New York | 4% | Yes |
| North Carolina | 4.75% | Yes |
| North Dakota | 5% | Yes |
| Ohio | 5.75% | Yes |
| Oklahoma | 4.5% | Yes |
| Oregon | None | No |
| Pennsylvania | 6% | Yes |
| Rhode Island | 7% | No |
| South Carolina | 6% | Yes |
| South Dakota | 4.2% | Yes |
| Tennessee | 7% | Yes |
| Texas | 6.25% | Yes |
| Utah | 6.1% | Yes |
| Vermont | 6% | Yes |
| Virginia | 5.3% | Yes |
| Washington | 6.5% | Yes |
| West Virginia | 6% | Yes |
| Wisconsin | 5% | Yes |
| Wyoming | 4% | Yes |
How US Sales Tax Works
US sales tax is charged once, at the final retail sale, on top of the sticker price. There is no national sales tax or VAT: each state sets its own rate, and in 38 states cities, counties, and special districts layer local taxes on top. That produces roughly 13,000 distinct tax jurisdictions, which is why the rate on your receipt rarely matches the state rate alone.
Five states — New Hampshire, Oregon, Montana, Alaska, and Delaware, the “NOMAD” states — charge no statewide sales tax (Alaska, Delaware, Montana, New Hampshire, Oregon in the table above). Alaska is the exception within the exception: its municipalities may levy local sales taxes even though the state rate is zero.
For sellers, the operative concept is nexus. You collect a state's sales tax when you have a physical presence there (offices, staff, inventory) or economic nexus — since the 2018 South Dakota v. Wayfair ruling, most states require out-of-state sellers to register and collect once sales into the state pass a threshold, commonly $100,000 per year. E-commerce businesses selling nationwide typically automate this with tax software rather than tracking 50 sets of rules by hand.
Selling into Canada too? The equivalent there is GST/HST, a value-added tax with uniform rates per province — our GST/HST calculator covers every province.
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