A Minneapolis order carries more local tax lines than most stores expect. The Minnesota Department of Revenue's rate guide for Oct. 1 to Dec. 31, 2026 puts the combined rate for a Minneapolis address at 9.025 percent: the 6.875 percent state rate plus a Hennepin County tax, the county transit tax, a Minneapolis city tax, and two metro-area taxes that took effect on Oct. 1, 2023. The state's sourcing statute sends a delivered order to the place where the buyer receives it, so the rate follows the shipping address, not your warehouse. Minneapolis also has an entertainment tax that reaches merchandise sold in public places during live performances, which matters if you sell at gigs as well as online. This page sets out the rate, the rule that decides which taxes reach a delivery, what the city is, and a single code plan for the Twin Cities Marathon weekend.
Place a test order to a Minneapolis address and read the tax line. The Department's guide for Oct. 1 to Dec. 31, 2026 lists 9.025 percent. Rates are posted by quarter, so re-check the guide each quarter and read the tax line after the code is applied.
Do not promise a price that includes tax. The address decides which of five local lines apply, and a shopper in another city, even in the same county, can see a different total for the same cart. Say the percentage off the item price and let checkout show tax.
Plan a single code for Twin Cities Marathon weekend, Oct. 15 to 17, 2027, and keep it pending until the organizers confirm the permit. Name the code for the event, set the same start and end as the weekend, and add a one use per customer limit so it does not outlive the weekend.
Keep show sales and web sales apart. The entertainment tax can reach merchandise sold in public places during live performances in Minneapolis, which is a different rule from an online order delivered to a buyer, so give web buyers a code that is not printed on show flyers.
Open the Sales by discount codes report and compare orders with the code to the same days the week before. Delivery addresses in the seven metro counties carry the two metro-area taxes, so group your results by county before you decide whether the offer worked.
Build it with the Single code template.
Section 297A.668 sends a delivered order to the place where the buyer receives it. The rate guide lists Minneapolis at 9.025 percent and Hopkins, another city in the same county, at 8.525 percent, so two Hennepin County shoppers can see different totals for the same cart. Do not hard-code one rate; let your tax settings read the address.
Source: Minnesota Office of the Revisor of Statutes: Minnesota Statutes section 297A.668, subdivision 2
The entertainment tax reaches merchandise sold in public places during live performances in the city, and the fact sheet treats a convenience fee on a ticket differently from the admission. If you sell prints or shirts at a Minneapolis show and also online, keep the two channels separate in your records and use a code that only works online.
Target's business address is in downtown Minneapolis and Best Buy's is across the southern city line in Richfield. As planning advice, not a rule, give your own offer a reason that is yours, such as a marathon weekend, and leave their names and logos out of your copy.
Minneapolis is a place where several local taxes, a metro-wide tax and a home market for national retailers meet, so a store that ships here has to get the address-level tax line right and run offers beside well-known neighbors.
The Department of Revenue's local sales and use tax rate guide, effective Oct. 1 to Dec. 31, 2026, lists Minneapolis at a combined sales tax rate of 9.025 percent on a 6.875 percent state rate, while it lists Hopkins, another Hennepin County city, at 8.525 percent, and the rates are published each quarter.
Minnesota Department of Revenue: Local Sales and Use Tax Rate Guide (effective 10/1/2026 to 12/31/2026) (accessed October 10, 2026)
The Minneapolis special local taxes fact sheet lists the taxes that apply on top of the 6.875 percent state rate as 0.15 percent Hennepin County, 0.5 percent Hennepin County transit, 0.5 percent Minneapolis, 0.25 percent metro-area housing and 0.75 percent metro-area transportation.
Minnesota Department of Revenue: Minneapolis Special Local Taxes, Fact Sheet 164M (revised February 2025) (accessed October 10, 2026)
The Department's chart lists the metro-area housing sales tax at 0.25 percent and the metro-area transportation sales tax at 0.75 percent, both beginning Oct. 1, 2023, and its rate guide says both follow the same rules as all local sales taxes in Anoka, Carver, Dakota, Hennepin, Ramsey, Scott and Washington counties.
Minnesota Department of Revenue: Local Sales and Use Taxes Including Special Local Taxes (effective 10/1/2026 to 12/31/2026) (accessed October 10, 2026)
Minnesota Statutes section 297A.668 sources a retail sale to the seller's location when the buyer receives the product there, and otherwise to the location where the buyer or the buyer's designated recipient receives it, including the location in the delivery instructions known to the seller.
Minnesota Office of the Revisor of Statutes: Minnesota Statutes section 297A.668, subdivision 2 (accessed October 10, 2026)
The fact sheet says Minneapolis has a 3 percent entertainment tax that applies citywide to admission fees, amusement devices and games, food, drinks and merchandise sold in public places during live performances, and short-term lodging.
Minnesota Department of Revenue: Minneapolis Special Local Taxes, Fact Sheet 164M (revised February 2025) (accessed October 10, 2026)
Twin Cities In Motion's July 7, 2026 announcement lists the 2027 Twin Cities Marathon weekend as Oct. 15 to 17, 2027, marked pending permit approval, and says the weekend moves to mid-October starting in 2027.
Twin Cities In Motion: Starting in 2027, Twin Cities Marathon Weekend Moves to Mid-October (July 7, 2026) (accessed October 10, 2026)
The SEC's company records list Target Corporation's business address as 1000 Nicollet Mall in Minneapolis and Best Buy Co., Inc.'s as 7601 Penn Avenue South in Richfield, a city on Minneapolis's southern border.
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission: EDGAR company records for Target Corp (CIK 0000027419) and Best Buy Co Inc (CIK 0000764478) (accessed October 10, 2026)
The Census Bureau's Vintage 2025 estimate for the city of Minneapolis is 430,324 people, the 46th largest of the incorporated places in its city and town file.
U.S. Census Bureau: Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places (Vintage 2025, SUB-EST2025) (accessed October 10, 2026)
The city of Minneapolis has 54.000 square miles of land area and 3.507 square miles of water area in the Census Bureau's 2025 Gazetteer file.
U.S. Census Bureau: 2025 Gazetteer Files, Places (accessed October 10, 2026)
Not tax advice. Confirm current rules with the state revenue department before you rely on a date or an exemption.
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