Sales tax in Stewart County, Tennessee

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There is no single sales tax rate in Stewart County. It runs from 9.25% to 9.75% depending on the exact address, because cities and special districts inside the county levy their own on top of the 7% state rate. The 7% state rate applies everywhere in the county; everything above that depends on where you are standing. These rates were read from Tennessee's own published schedule and checked on September 9, 2026. The rate in each of the 2 cities is in the table below.

What is the sales tax rate in Stewart County?

Sales tax rate components in Stewart County, Tennessee
Tennessee state rate7%
Stewart County rate2.25%
Lowest combined rate in the county9.25%
Highest combined rate in the county9.75%

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

What is the sales tax rate in each city in Stewart 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.

Sales tax rate by city in Stewart County, Tennessee
CityOctober 1, 2026 onward
Cumberland City9.25%
Dover9.75%
Unincorporated Stewart County9.25%

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 Stewart County?

At 9.25%, a $100 purchase carries $9.25 in sales tax and a $1,000 purchase $92.50, at the lowest rate in the county. At the highest, 9.75%, the same purchases carry $9.75 and $97.50. That is general merchandise; Tennessee taxes some categories, often groceries, differently, as the note below explains.

Among Tennessee's 95 counties, Stewart County's lowest rate ranks 68th highest, level with 21 other counties. See every Tennessee county.

Sales tax in counties next to Stewart County

Stewart County borders 7 counties, 3 of them in another state. The lowest rate next door is 6% in Calloway County, KY, which is $32.50 less on a $1,000 purchase than the lowest rate in Stewart County.

Stewart County and its neighbors, highest rate first
CountyCombined sales tax
Benton County, TN9.75%
Henry County, TN9.75%
Houston County, TN9.75%
Montgomery County, TN9.5%
Stewart County, TN (this county)9.25% to 9.75%
Calloway County, KY6%
Christian County, KY6%
Trigg County, KY6%

Why the rate here is not the whole story

Tennessee taxes general merchandise at a state rate of 7 percent and Stewart County levies the local option sales and use tax at 2.25 percent, so the rate in the unincorporated county is 9.25 percent. Any incorporated city may levy the same tax by ordinance up to the statewide local cap of 2.75 percent, and a city rate replaces the county rate inside the city limits instead of stacking on it, so the combined rate here runs from 9.25 percent in the unincorporated county up to 9.75 percent in Dover. 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 Stewart County?

Use Tennessee's own address lookup. In Stewart County the rate depends on the address, anywhere from 9.25% to 9.75%.

Who has to collect sales tax in Stewart 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

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