Sales tax in Mississippi County, Arkansas

What is the sales tax rate in Mississippi County?

The combined figures are the lowest and highest totals anywhere in Mississippi County, so the rows above do not add up to them.

How much sales tax is that on a purchase in Mississippi County?

At 9%, a $100 purchase carries $9.00 in sales tax and a $1,000 purchase $90.00, at the lowest rate in the county. At the highest, 11%, the same purchases carry $11.00 and $110.00. That is general merchandise; Arkansas taxes some categories, often groceries, differently, as the note below explains.

Among Arkansas's 75 counties, Mississippi County's lowest rate ranks 12th highest, level with 2 other counties. See every Arkansas county.

Sales tax in counties next to Mississippi County

Mississippi County borders 9 counties, 6 of them in another state. The lowest rate next door is 5.9125% in Dunklin County, MO, which is $30.88 less on a $1,000 purchase than the lowest rate in Mississippi County.

Why the rate here is not the whole story

Arkansas charges 6.5 percent statewide and counties and cities each levy on top of it, and city limits do not follow county lines, so no single rate covers the whole county. The county itself levies 2.5 percent countywide, and that county rate applies inside its cities as well as outside them. The floor of 9 percent is the state rate plus the county rate in the unincorporated part of the county, and the ceiling of 11 percent is at Keiser, and at 1 other city in the county at the same rate. Arkansas cut the state rate on food and food ingredients to 0 percent on January 1 2026 while every city and county tax still applies to groceries, so the figures here are the general merchandise rates and not the grocery rate. The city and county part of a single transaction is capped at the first 2,500 dollars only for motor vehicles, aircraft, watercraft and manufactured housing, and on any other business invoice above 2,500 dollars the buyer may claim a rebate of the local tax paid above that amount.

How do I find the exact rate for an address in Mississippi County?

Use Arkansas's own address lookup. In Mississippi County the rate depends on the address, anywhere from 9% to 11%.

Who has to collect sales tax in Mississippi County?

Any seller with a physical presence in Arkansas collects at the rate for the address of the sale; a remote seller does once it passes Arkansas's economic nexus threshold. Arkansas sales tax covers the statewide rules and what is exempt.

Work out your own numbers

• Sales tax calculator

  Tax on a specific purchase at this county's rate, and the total you will actually pay.

• Do you have to collect?

  Whether your sales into Arkansas cross its economic nexus threshold. A different question from the rate.

• Property tax in Mississippi County

  The other local tax: effective rate and median bill for this county.

• Sales tax by county

  Every US county, and how Arkansas compares with the rest of the country.