Sales tax in Bessemer, AL

ZIP codes in Bessemer

7 on file, every one crossing the city line. Each has its own page.

7 ZIP codes crossing the city line

Part of each of these lies outside Bessemer. An address in one may be taxed at a neighbour's rate instead, and the figure shown is the most likely one across the whole ZIP code.

Who levies sales tax across Bessemer's ZIP codes

Each government below levies its own share, but not all of them reach every address: the ZIP codes covering Bessemer reach into more than one county and city, and an address pays only the shares whose boundary it falls inside.

No total is shown because more than one county and city is listed. An address falls inside only one of each, so these shares are alternatives rather than a stack, and adding them all up would give a figure nobody pays.

What can change the tax you pay in Bessemer, AL

• ZIP codes shared with a neighbour. 7 of Bessemer's 7 ZIP codes are also reached by Birmingham, Hoover, Helena and Lipscomb and 10 other places, so an address in one of them can owe a neighbour's rate instead of Bessemer's.
• Your exact address. Jefferson County, Shelby County, Bibb County and Tuscaloosa County cover only part of this area, so an address inside them is taxed differently from one just outside. A ZIP code is a postal delivery route and was never drawn to follow tax boundaries.
• What you are buying. Categories are not taxed alike. The calculator switches between general merchandise, prepared food and lodging, which are the categories we hold rates for here.

How Bessemer compares with the rest of Alabama

Bessemer's ~10% is the most common combined rate in Alabama. Of the state's 810 ZIP codes with a figure, 215 land on the same one, 466 carry a lower figure and 129 a higher one. Across Alabama the combined rate runs from 4% to 13.5%. See every city in Alabama.

Counted from ZIP-code figures. A tilde marks a band where some ZIP codes cross a tax boundary and are counted at their most likely rate.

Why you can rely on these figures

Published rates

State and local rates compiled from the tax authorities that levy them.

Every figure sourced

See the jurisdiction breakdown and the document each rate came from.

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Where a rate is not verified we say so instead of showing a short total.