North Carolina: Sales Tax Handbook

North Carolina:

2024 North Carolina Sales Tax Map by County

North Carolina Sales Tax:

4.75%

Average Sales Tax (Including Local Taxes):

6.972%

North Carolina Sales Tax Map Legend:

Lowest sales tax (6.75%)

Highest sales tax (7.5%)

This interactive sales tax map map of North Carolina shows how local sales tax rates vary across North Carolina's 100 counties. Click on any county for detailed sales tax rates, or see a full list of North Carolina counties here.

North Carolina has state sales tax of 4.75%, and allows local governments to collect a local option sales tax of up to 2.75%. There are a total of 460 local tax jurisdictions across the state, collecting an average local tax of 2.222%.

Combined with the state sales tax, the highest sales tax rate in North Carolina is 7.5% in the cities of Durham, Durham, Chapel Hill, Wake Forest and Durham (and fourteen other cities).

North Carolina sales tax rates last updated December 2024

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