What is the sales tax rate in Georgia?

The Georgia Department of Revenue describes the statewide rate as 4 percent. Local taxes are added on top, and a city tax generally applies for delivery in Atlanta, so the rate at checkout depends on the delivery address; the Department's examples use local taxes of 1 percent each. Use the Department's current rate chart for an address; this is not tax advice.

When does an out-of-state seller have to collect Georgia sales tax?

House Bill 182 set the revenue line at more than 100,000 dollars of retail sales delivered into Georgia in the previous or current calendar year, replacing 250,000 dollars, for sales from Jan. 1, 2020. Other triggers can also apply, so confirm your situation with the Department of Revenue; this is not tax advice.

Does Georgia have a sales tax holiday I should plan a promotion around?

The Department of Revenue's rate page does not mention one, so this page does not plan around any. Check the Department's site before you promote anything as tax free.

Does a marketplace collect Georgia tax on my Shopify store's sales?

No. The Department says a marketplace facilitator collects and remits tax on the sales it facilitates, and that sales a facilitator makes directly go under a separate account. Orders on your own Shopify store are not facilitated by a marketplace, so they count toward your own Georgia total. Confirm with the Department; this is not tax advice.

What has the Georgia Ports Authority added lately?

The Authority's July 2026 release says the Brampton Road Connector, a four-lane highway from Gate 3 to the interstate, opened to port truck traffic on July 15 and that the Gainesville Inland Port opened in May, and it mentions five big ship container berths added in Savannah. These are the Authority's own statements.

How much freight moves through the Port of Savannah?

The Georgia Ports Authority reports 5.67 million TEUs for fiscal year 2026, 541,405 containers moved by rail at Mason Mega Rail and 49,319 intermodal containers at the Appalachian Regional Port. These are the Authority's own figures for its fiscal year 2026.

Selling into Georgia: stacked local taxes, the Savannah port and a gift plan

Georgia sets a 4 percent statewide sales tax rate and adds local taxes on top (the Department of Revenue's own examples show 1 percent local taxes stacked four and five deep), so two addresses in the same state can see different totals at checkout. Out-of-state sellers face a revenue test rather than a store test: the General Assembly lowered the line for a remote seller from 250,000 dollars to 100,000 dollars of Georgia sales in the previous or current calendar year, for sales from Jan. 1, 2020. The other side of the state is freight. The Georgia Ports Authority reports that the Port of Savannah handled 5.67 million TEUs in its 2026 fiscal year, with rail and truck links that move boxes inland every day. This page puts those facts to work for a Shopify store that wants a cart offer to start when its stock arrives.

Updated October 10, 2026 · 10 sourced facts

A large container ship approaching the cable-stayed Talmadge Memorial Bridge on the Savannah River at sunset, with a small motorboat in the foreground and a riverfront dock at left — Photo: Lovemedead, CC BY-SA via Wikimedia Commons

Shipping into the state

Georgia covers 57,513 square miles of land, and the Georgia Ports Authority reports 40 ship calls and 42 doublestack trains a week at Savannah, plus 541,405 rail containers in fiscal year 2026. A store that imports through the port can see its stock arrive on a schedule, and a cart offer built around that stock has a natural start date. Delivery inside the state is where local taxes stack, so a basket that crosses a threshold before tax can still look different at checkout from one county to the next.

Source: Georgia Ports Authority: Port of Savannah volumes up 18% in June (July 28, 2026)

Source: Georgia Department of Revenue: Tax Rates

Source: U.S. Census Bureau: State Area Measurements (2010)

Questions merchants ask

What is the sales tax rate in Georgia?: The Georgia Department of Revenue describes the statewide rate as 4 percent. Local taxes are added on top, and a city tax generally applies for delivery in Atlanta, so the rate at checkout depends on the delivery address; the Department's examples use local taxes of 1 percent each. Use the Department's current rate chart for an address; this is not tax advice.
When does an out-of-state seller have to collect Georgia sales tax?: House Bill 182 set the revenue line at more than 100,000 dollars of retail sales delivered into Georgia in the previous or current calendar year, replacing 250,000 dollars, for sales from Jan. 1, 2020. Other triggers can also apply, so confirm your situation with the Department of Revenue; this is not tax advice.
Does Georgia have a sales tax holiday I should plan a promotion around?: The Department of Revenue's rate page does not mention one, so this page does not plan around any. Check the Department's site before you promote anything as tax free.
Does a marketplace collect Georgia tax on my Shopify store's sales?: No. The Department says a marketplace facilitator collects and remits tax on the sales it facilitates, and that sales a facilitator makes directly go under a separate account. Orders on your own Shopify store are not facilitated by a marketplace, so they count toward your own Georgia total. Confirm with the Department; this is not tax advice.
What has the Georgia Ports Authority added lately?: The Authority's July 2026 release says the Brampton Road Connector, a four-lane highway from Gate 3 to the interstate, opened to port truck traffic on July 15 and that the Gainesville Inland Port opened in May, and it mentions five big ship container berths added in Savannah. These are the Authority's own statements.
How much freight moves through the Port of Savannah?: The Georgia Ports Authority reports 5.67 million TEUs for fiscal year 2026, 541,405 containers moved by rail at Mason Mega Rail and 49,319 intermodal containers at the Appalachian Regional Port. These are the Authority's own figures for its fiscal year 2026.

A spend-and-get gift plan timed to Savannah arrivals

Before you set the gift threshold
Decide whether the line counts the sale before or after tax and say so in the banner. Using the Department's own example of the 4 percent state rate plus four 1 percent local taxes, a 100 dollar basket carries 8.00 dollars of tax, so a line written as 100 dollars can mean 100 or 108 at the register depending on how you word it.
Source: Georgia Department of Revenue: Tax Rates
When container stock lands
If your stock comes through Savannah, start the gift offer when the boxes are on your shelf, not when the booking is made. The Authority reports 40 ship calls and 42 doublestack trains a week, so arrivals are frequent; choose a gift from the pallet you can see, not one still at sea.
Source: Georgia Ports Authority: Port of Savannah volumes up 18% in June (July 28, 2026)
When you choose the gift
Price the gift at its landed cost, including the freight that brought it in, and set the threshold above your usual basket. Savannah's volumes can move month to month (June 2026 was up 18 percent on the year before), so recheck landed cost when your next shipment arrives.
Source: Georgia Ports Authority: Port of Savannah volumes up 18% in June (July 28, 2026)
As Georgia sales grow
Keep a running total of gross sales delivered to Georgia. The line in House Bill 182 is 100,000 dollars in the previous or current calendar year, so a store that gifts its way to growth can cross it sooner than planned. Register before the sale that takes you over, not after.
Source: Georgia General Assembly: House Bill 182 (as passed House and Senate, 2019), signed legislation
If you sell through a marketplace
Check which of your sales a marketplace collects Georgia tax on. The Department says a facilitator must collect once combined sales reach 100,000 dollars, and sales on your own Shopify store are not facilitated by it, so count them separately.
Source: Georgia Department of Revenue: Marketplace Facilitators

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Facts and sources

The Georgia Department of Revenue's rate page describes the statewide sales tax rate as 4 percent and shows local sales taxes added on top, with its example for Muscogee County being the 4 percent state rate plus four local sales taxes of 1 percent each.
Georgia Department of Revenue: Tax Rates (accessed October 10, 2026)
The Department's rate page says sales tax is generally due at the rate of the county where the customer takes delivery, that a city sales tax will generally apply in addition to the state and county sales taxes for a delivery in Atlanta, and that a dealer must collect at the rate of the local jurisdiction where the product is delivered even with no presence there.
Georgia Department of Revenue: Tax Rates (accessed October 10, 2026)
House Bill 182 (2019) amended Code Section 48-8-2 so that a dealer includes a seller that obtains gross revenue exceeding 100,000 dollars, where the earlier text said 250,000 dollars, in the previous or current calendar year from retail sales of tangible personal property delivered electronically or physically to a location in Georgia, and the change applies to sales made on or after Jan. 1, 2020.
Georgia General Assembly: House Bill 182 (as passed House and Senate, 2019), signed legislation (accessed October 10, 2026)
The Department says a marketplace facilitator must collect and remit Georgia state and local sales taxes when the taxable retail sales sourced to Georgia, combined across all its marketplace sellers and the facilitator itself, equal or exceed 100,000 dollars in the previous or current calendar year.
Georgia Department of Revenue: Marketplace Facilitators (accessed October 10, 2026)
The Georgia Ports Authority reports that cargo owners shipped 5.67 million TEUs across the Port of Savannah docks in fiscal year 2026, with 483,684 TEUs in June alone, up nearly 73,300 TEUs or 18 percent from June 2025.
Georgia Ports Authority: Port of Savannah volumes up 18% in June (July 28, 2026) (accessed October 10, 2026)
The Authority says it moved 541,405 containers by rail at Mason Mega Rail in fiscal year 2026, the third straight year above half a million, and that rail carried 17 percent of Savannah's container trade.
Georgia Ports Authority: Port of Savannah volumes up 18% in June (July 28, 2026) (accessed October 10, 2026)
The Authority's release describes Savannah as having 40 ship calls a week, 42 doublestack trains per week and 14,000 truck gate moves daily.
Georgia Ports Authority: Port of Savannah volumes up 18% in June (July 28, 2026) (accessed October 10, 2026)
The Authority's Appalachian Regional Port handled a record 49,319 intermodal containers in fiscal year 2026, an increase of 20 percent, or more than 8,100 boxes, compared with fiscal year 2025.
Georgia Ports Authority: Port of Savannah volumes up 18% in June (July 28, 2026) (accessed October 10, 2026)
The Authority says the Brampton Road Connector, a four-lane highway linking Gate 3 to the interstate that cost 130 million dollars, opened to port truck traffic on July 15, and that it opened the 134 million dollar Gainesville Inland Port in May.
Georgia Ports Authority: Port of Savannah volumes up 18% in June (July 28, 2026) (accessed October 10, 2026)
Georgia has 57,513 square miles of land area and 59,425 square miles in total.
U.S. Census Bureau: State Area Measurements (2010) (accessed October 10, 2026)

Cities in Georgia

AtlantaAtlanta's 8.9 percent sales tax rate, the January and July AmericasMart markets and the April Dogwood Festival, with a cart discount plan that uses them.

Not tax advice. Confirm current rules with the state revenue department before you rely on a date or an exemption.

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