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1 Jared Walczak & Dominic Pino, Sales Tax Rates in Major Cities, Midyear 2019 1 (2019)

handle is hein.taxfoundation/stxrtmci0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 4Sales Tax Rates in Major Cities, Midyear 2019 Jared Walczak Dominic Pino F I S CA L Director of State Tax Policy Research Assistant FACT No. 669 Aug. 2019 Key Findings There are over 11,000 sales tax jurisdictions in the United States, with widely varying rates. Among major cities, Chicago, Illinois and Long Beach and Glendale, California impose the highest combined state and local sales tax rates, at 10.25 percent. Three cities follow with combined rates of 10 percent or higher: Tacoma (10.2 percent) and Seattle (10.1 percent), Washington, and Birmingham, Alabama (10 percent). Neither Anchorage, Alaska, nor Portland, Oregon, impose any state or local sales taxes. Honolulu, Hawaii, has a low rate of 4.5 percent, and several other major cities, including Richmond, Virginia, keep overall rates modest. Successful ballot measures yielded local sales tax increases in nine major cities, with a voter-approved 0.75 percentage point increase in Glendale, California vaulting that city in Los Angeles County to tie for highest combined rate of any major city. Four cities-Tampa, Florida and Bakersfield, Chula Vista, and Riverside, California-saw sales tax rate increases of 1 percent or more in the first half of 2019. Research demonstrates a rise in cross-border shopping and other avoidance efforts as sales tax rates increase. The Tax Foundation is the nation's leading independent tax policy research organization. Since 1937, our research, analysis, and experts have informed smarter tax policy at the federal, state, and local levels. We are a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. ©2019 Tax Foundation Distributed under Creative Commons CC BY NC 4.0 Editor, Rachel Shuster Designer, Dan Carvajal Tax Foundation 1325 G Street, NW, Suite 950 Washington, DC 20005 202.464.6200 taxfoundation.org

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