Sales tax in Davidson County, Tennessee

What is the sales tax rate in Davidson County?

What is the sales tax rate in each city in Davidson County?

Tennessee publishes the rate for every city it taxes. These are the combined rates, state and local together, as listed in Tennessee's own rate file.

Source: Tennessee rate file for October 1, 2026 onward, from Tennessee's official rate page.

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

At 9.75%, a $100 purchase carries $9.75 in sales tax and a $1,000 purchase $97.50. That is general merchandise; Tennessee taxes some categories, often groceries, differently, as the note below explains.

Davidson County's rate is the highest in Tennessee, shared with 57 other counties. See every Tennessee county.

Sales tax in counties next to Davidson County

Davidson County borders 6 counties. The lowest rate next door is 9.25% in Cheatham County, TN, which is $5.00 less on a $1,000 purchase than Davidson County's rate.

Why the rate here is not the whole story

Tennessee taxes general merchandise at a state rate of 7 percent and Davidson County levies the local option sales and use tax at 2.25 percent, plus a 0.5 percent local option transit surcharge that took effect February 1, 2025 and applies countywide, for an effective local rate of 2.75 percent and a combined rate of 9.75 percent. Nashville and the satellite cities of Belle Meade, Berry Hill, Forest Hills, Oak Hill, Goodlettsville and Ridgetop all sit at the same 2.75 percent, which is the statewide local cap, so no address in the county is higher or lower. Food and food ingredients are taxed at a reduced state rate of 4 percent instead of 7 percent, with the same local rate on top, so the figures here are the general merchandise rate. The local part of the tax applies only to the first $1,600 of the price of a single article of tangible personal property, and a separate state single article tax of 2.75 percent applies to the part of the price between $1,600 and $3,200.

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

Use Tennessee's own address lookup.

Who has to collect sales tax in Davidson County?

Any seller with a physical presence in Tennessee collects at the rate for the address of the sale; a remote seller does once it passes Tennessee's economic nexus threshold. Tennessee 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 Tennessee cross its economic nexus threshold. A different question from the rate.

• Property tax in Davidson County

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

• Sales tax by county

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