If you’re planning on filing a sales and use tax return in Georgia, you’ll need to know the following information:

–          Total sales in Georgia

–         Amount of sales exempt from tax

–         Amount of sales tax collected

–         Amount of taxable sales

Georgia sales tax compliance has a state-level sales tax rate of 4%. However, in Atlanta and Clayton County, the Motor Vehicle taxes 1% less than the normal rate. The sale of food (which includes groceries, food ingredients, unprepared food, etc.) is tax exempt at the state level. Although you don’t have to pay taxes on food at the state level, there are still taxes applied to the sale of food at Georgia’s local level.

Georgia Sales Tax

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