Texas Sales Tax
Work out sales tax and the final price on a Texas purchase from the state and local rates you enter.
About Texas Sales Tax
This adds the state rate and any local rate you enter to the pre-tax price. No Texas rate is stored in the calculator, because state and local sales-tax rates change and vary by address. the Texas Department of Revenue (or equivalent state tax authority) publishes the current state rate, and your city or county publishes any additional local rate.
Formula
Total
Total = price × (1 + (state rate + local rate) ÷ 100)
- state rate
- Your own input — not a figure supplied by this calculator
Worked example
With the default values below, Texas Sales Tax returns Sales Tax at the Rates You Entered of $0.00. Change any input above and every figure here is recalculated in your browser.
Inputs used
- Pre-tax priceminimum 0
- 100
- State sales tax rate (%) — check the Texas Department of Revenue (or equivalent state tax authority)accepts 0–15
- 0
- Additional local (city/county) rate (%)accepts 0–8
- 0
Results
- Sales Tax at the Rates You Entered
- $0.00
- Total Price
- $100.00
- Combined Rate You Entered
- 0.00%
- Data Note
- No Texas rate is built into this calculator. Enter the current state rate from the Texas Department of Revenue (or equivalent state tax authority) plus your city or county rate.
Step by step
- 1Values used
- 2Total
- 3Sales Tax at the Rates You Entered= 0.00
- 4Total Price= 100.00
- 5Combined Rate You Entered= 0.00
- 6Data Note= No Texas rate is built into this calculator. Enter the current state rate from the Texas Department of Revenue (or equivalent state tax authority) plus your city or county rate.
Assumptions and limits
- The result is derived only from the 3 inputs listed above. Anything not among them is not part of the calculation.
- In particular, this calculator does not take inflation, fees or charges or compounding frequency into account.
- Figures are rounded for display to 2 decimal places, so totals built from several rounded parts can differ slightly from the unrounded arithmetic.
- No sales-tax rate is built in — the tax shown uses the rates you entered. Check official state and local rates for a precise figure.
- This is an estimate for general information and not professional financial, tax or legal advice. See the full disclaimer for the limits that apply to this kind of calculator.
How these calculators are built and tested is described on the Methodology page. If a figure looks wrong, please report it.
Texas rules are not built in
Texas-specific rules are not built into this calculator. It uses the same general calculation as Alabama Sales Tax. Check current figures with Texas’s official source before relying on the result.
Tax year: not verified · Source: none built in
No sales-tax rate is built in — the tax shown uses the rates you entered. Check official state and local rates for a precise figure.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does this calculator know the Texas sales tax rate?
No, by design: it ships without a rate so it cannot display a stale one. Check the current state rate with the Texas Department of Revenue (or equivalent state tax authority).
Are local rates included?
Only if you enter them. Many cities and counties add their own rate on top of the state rate.
Why is the tax zero?
Both rate fields start at 0. Enter the state rate and any local rate to see the tax and total.