Sales tax in Los Angeles, CA

How the combined rate in Los Angeles, CA is made up

Each government below levies its own share. A seller collects them together at the till and passes each share to the authority that levied it.

ZIP codes in Los Angeles

142 on file — 70 wholly inside the city limits and 72 crossing them. Each has its own page.

What can change the tax you pay in Los Angeles, CA

• ZIP codes shared with a neighbour. 72 of Los Angeles's 142 ZIP codes are also reached by Unincorporated Los Angeles County, Culver City, Glendale and West Hollywood and 29 other places, so an address in one of them can owe a neighbour's rate instead of Los Angeles's.
• 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 Los Angeles compares with the rest of California

Los Angeles's 9.75% is above what most ZIP codes carry in California. Of the state's 2,584 ZIP codes with a figure, 346 land on the same one, 1,825 carry a lower figure and 413 a higher one. Across California the combined rate runs from 7.25% to 11.25%. See every city in California.

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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