On this page we are describing the sales taxes in the State of Georgia, we aim to educate you on the differences that occur throughout the state so you get a better understanding of it in regards to whether you may have:

  • Have taken a new job in the are
  • Applied for a new school
  • Opened a new bank account in the state of Georgia
  • People who may be unable to find their Social Security Card or have lost it.

What is the lowest and highest sales tax in Georgia?

In the map of Georgia that is pictured below there are a total of 160 countries that are within the state. You can go directly to the page and see which area has the highest and lowest sales tax in your county of choice.

Appling Atkinson Bacon Baker Baldwin Banks Barrow Bartow Ben Hill Berrien Bibb Bleckley Brantley Brooks Bryan Bulloch Burke Butts Calhoun Camden Candler Carroll Catoosa Charlton Chatham Chattahoochee Chattooga Cherokee Clarke Clay Clayton Clinch Cobb Coffee Colquitt Columbia Cook Coweta Crawford Crisp Dade Dawson Decatur DeKalb Dodge Dooly Dougherty Douglas Early Echols Effingham Elbert Emanuel Evans Fannin Fayette Floyd Forsyth Franklin Fulton Gilmer Glascock Glynn Gordon Grady Greene Gwinnett Habersham Hall Hancock Haralson Harris Hart Heard Henry Houston Irwin Jackson Jasper Jeff Davis Jefferson Jenkins Johnson Jones Lamar Lanier Laurens Lee Liberty Lincoln Long Lowndes Lumpkin Macon Madison Marion McDuffie McIntosh Meriwether Miller Mitchell Monroe Montgomery Morgan Murray Muscogee Newton Oconee Oglethorpe Paulding Peach Pickens Pierce Pike Polk Pulaski Putnam Quitman Rabun Randolph Richmond Rockdale Schley Screven Seminole Spalding Stephens Stewart Sumter Talbot Taliaferro Tattnall Taylor Telfair Terrell Thomas Tift Toombs Towns Treutlen Troup Turner Twiggs Union Upson Walker Walton Ware Warren Washington Wayne Webster Wheeler White Whitfield Wilcox Wilkes Wilkinson Worth
The state sales tax for businesses and so forth is a standard rate of 4% which allows the local government to be able to collect up to another 5.9% on top of this:

  • the average sales tax for the entirety of Georgia is 7.547%,
  • the highest is within the Fulton County that consists of Atlanta and this equates to 8.9% sales tax,
  • the lowest sales tax is in the Cherokee, Cobb, Glynn County, which includes cities like Woodstock, Canton, Acworth, Austell, Powder Springs, Smyrna, Mableton, Brunswick, Saint Simons Island, Jekyll Island and the sales tax in these areas total to 6%

This is a brief overview, and we suggest that you go directly to the page if you wish to get a clearer image of the different ranges of sale tax in a particular county. Please note that the ones that have an asterisk means they are below the usual county level of sales tax.

How to calculate your own sales tax in the state of Georgia.

So, what does this mean for you, if you are looking into how much sales tax you are going to charged dependant on what sort of county you are residing or working out of. You can go ahead and use a sales tax calculator which will give you a section that is exampled below.

$
-or- Specify Sales Tax Rate
-or- Specify ZIP Code
%

 

You do need to know the purchase ZIP code and purchase amount in order to get an accurate figure. For an example we will use the amount of $300 and see what the ranges could be from the highest area to the lowest.

In Atlanta, GA with the highest sales tax of 8.9% would mean that your $300 purchase would incur a $26.7 sales tax, taking the total amount to $326.7.

Whereas in Canton, GA the sales tax is only 6% and a $300 purchase would equate to $18 tax, taking the total to $318.

The sales tax calculator makes it as easy as it can be to find out what sort of sales tax you will be charged by simply adding the amount and the ZIP code. Though there might be some purchases that are exempt from sales taxes or have some special leniency which do need to be taken into consideration.

City Sales Tax Rate Zip-code Population
Atlanta 8.90% 30301, 30302, 30303, 30304, 30305, 30308, 30309, 30310, 30311, 30312, 30313, 30314, 30315, 30318, 30321, 30324, 30325, 30326, 30327, 30331, 30332, 30342, 30343, 30354, 30355, 30357, 30361, 30363, 30368, 30369, 30375, 30377, 30388, 30398, 31106, 31126, 31131 333149
Marietta 6.00% 30008, 30060, 30062, 30064, 30066, 30067, 30068, 30069 243716
Lawrenceville 6.00% 30042, 30043, 30044, 30045, 30046, 30049 180900
Columbus 8.00% 31901, 31902, 31903, 31904, 31906, 31907, 31908, 31909, 31914, 31917, 31998, 31999 137812
Savannah 7.00% 31401, 31402, 31403, 31404, 31405, 31406, 31409, 31412, 31414, 31415, 31416, 31419, 31420, 31421 137318
Augusta 8.00% 30901, 30903, 30904, 30905, 30906, 30909, 30912, 30914, 30916, 30919 111014
Cumming 7.00% 30028, 30040, 30041 104227
Decatur 8.00% 30032, 30034, 30035, 30037 85664
Roswell 7.75% 30075, 30076, 30077 79984
Albany 8.00% 31701, 31702, 31703, 31705, 31706, 31707, 31708, 31721 74462
Woodstock 6.00% 30188, 30189 74200
Mcdonough 7.00% 30252, 30253 71835
Gainesville 7.00% 30504, 30506, 30507 70241
Canton 6.00% 30114, 30115 65795
Conyers 7.00% 30012, 30013, 30094 65060
Athens 8.00% 30601, 30602, 30603, 30604, 30605, 30606, 30608, 30609, 30612 62978
Jonesboro 8.00% 30236, 30238 62699
Macon 7.00% 31201, 31203, 31204, 31205, 31206, 31207, 31208, 31209, 31211, 31213, 31221, 31294 62626
Covington 7.00% 30014, 30016 62625
Warner Robins 7.00% 31088, 31093, 31095 62111
Dallas 7.00% 30132, 30157 60010
Smyrna 6.00% 30080, 30081, 30082 58976
Suwanee 6.00% 30024 55195
Stockbridge 7.00% 30281 51336

Duluth

6.00% 30096, 30099 49623

Lilburn

6.00% 30047, 30048 49487

Fayetteville

7.00% 30214, 30215 49483

Loganville

6.00% 30052 48549

Powder Springs

6.00% 30127 48326

Riverdale

8.00% 30274, 30296 46395

Valdosta

8.00% 31601, 31602, 31603, 31604, 31698 46141

Acworth

6.00% 30101 44804

Carrollton

7.00% 30112, 30116, 30117, 30118, 30119 42024

Stone Mountain

8.00% 30083, 30086 40747

Lagrange

7.00% 30240, 30241, 30261 40463

Alpharetta

7.75% 30005, 30009, 30023 36781

Buford

6.00% 30515, 30518 35492

Douglasville

7.00% 30133, 30134, 30154 34019

Kennesaw

6.00% 30156, 30160, 31144 33960

Austell

6.00% 30106, 30168 33682

Dacula

6.00% 30019 32732

Ringgold

7.00% 30736 32429

Evans

8.00% 30809 32124

Brunswick

6.00% 31523, 31524, 31525 31821

Peachtree City

7.00% 30269, 30270, 31169 31332

Cartersville

7.00% 30120 31159

Ellenwood

8.00% 30294 31079

Hephzibah

8.00% 30815 31052

Hinesville

8.00% 31310, 31313 30211

Winder

7.00% 30680 29471

Why do I need to collect sales tax in Georgia?

You will need to collect sales tax if you have any sort of nexus there, and what this means is that if you have assets that are physical or economic then you need to do this.

Physical meaning having a tangible activity or some sort of presence in any of the states of Georgia, economic nexus is simply passing the states’ economic threshold for total revenue, or the maximum number of transactions that can occur in the period of time within the state.

Two easy ways to see if you have either a physical or economic nexus in any of the counties is the following:
Physical:

  • Tangible personal property
  • Business assets or property
  • Own, renting properties
  • Made more than $500,000 in a service or content delivery in the state

Economic:

  • Made more than $100,000 in sales annually
  • More than 200 transactions in the last calendar year

How do I get a sales tax permit?

The main way to go about this is to register online at the Georgia Business Gateway. Follow the steps that are presented to you and ensure that you have the following to hand to use as information:

  • Business identification information
  • Business entity
  • Location/s that you will be conducting this from
  • Date you will start collecting Georgia sales tax from a business/property
  • NAICS Code (North American Industry Classification System.)

What is the best way to file sales taxes?

Before you think of doing anything else there are three things that we recommend that you do in order to make this process as easy and smooth as possible.

First of all, find out how much tax you owe (remember the sales tax calculator we mentioned before) so that you know how much you need to pay the state at the end. Second is get onto the Georgia Department Of Taxation ready to submit them, and third have the money ready so you can make the payment straight away.

There are two main options as well to filing and paying your Georgia sales tax, these are:

  • Filing online. This is where merchants are required to file all of their sales taxes through the department of taxation in the state of Georgia, you can also pay your taxes on this platform, so it is one to keep close to you for future reference.
  • Filing by mail. Simply fill out the form UST-1, but this is not the recommended way of filing your taxes due to the possibilities of them getting lost in the post and then it could mean that you are subject to late fees if they are not filed within the allotted time.

We hope this document was able to allow you to feel more confident when it comes to sales tax in the state of Georgia depending on where you operate out of.