General sales and use tax rate increases to 6.875% beginning July 1, 2009
The Minnesota state general sales and use tax rate increases from 6.5 percent to 6.875 percent – an increase of 3/8ths of one percent — beginning July 1, 2009.
If your sales are in Washington county, your sales tax rate will generally be 7.125%; for liquor sales 9.625%. This includes the Transit Improvement Tax. See the list below for additional taxes for sales in other areas of Minnesota.
The additional revenue raised by the increased tax rate will be used to:
- protect our drinking water sources,
- protect, enhance, and restore our wetlands, prairies, forests, and fish, game and wildlife habitat,
- preserve our arts and cultural heritage,
- support our parks and trails, and
- protect, enhance, and restore our lakes, rivers, streams and groundwater
All other additional Minnesota taxes stay in force and must be added to the base rate as applicable:
Transit Improvement Tax .25%
Anoka, Dakota, Hennepin, Ramsey and Washington Counties
Hennepin County Tax .15%
City of Minneapolis .5%
City of St Paul .5%
Liquor 2.5%
Wisconsin Sales tax remains at 5.5%
For more information visit http://www.taxes.state.mn.us/taxes/sales/index.shtml