Sales tax in Massachusetts
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The Massachusetts state sales tax rate is 6.25%. Cities, counties and districts add their own on top, so the combined rate depends on where in Massachusetts you are.
State rate from Massachusetts sales tax statute (M.G.L. c.64H ยง2), checked Sep 4, 2026.
What a $100.00 purchase costs in tax across Massachusetts
General merchandise. Prepared food, lodging and other categories can be taxed differently, and a tilde marks a figure estimated from ZIP-code data rather than a verified rate for one address.
- State rate only (6.25%)
- $6.25
- Verified
- Most common combined rate (6.25%)
- $6.25
- Verified
- Highest combined rate (6.25%)
- $6.25
- Verified
What makes up a sales tax rate in Massachusetts
- The state's share: 6.25%. Levied on every taxable sale in Massachusetts, wherever it happens.
- Local shares: nothing to 0% on top. Counties, cities and special districts each add their own, and a seller collects them together. 272 cities in Massachusetts have their own pages with a figure below.
- Your exact address decides. A ZIP code is a postal route and was never drawn to follow tax boundaries, so two addresses sharing one can owe different totals. The calculator narrows it down from your ZIP code.
How combined rates are spread across Massachusetts
Number of Massachusetts ZIP codes at each combined general sales tax rate.
| Combined rate | ZIP codes | Share of the state |
|---|---|---|
| 0% | 1 | |
| 6.25% | 680 |
Sales tax by city in Massachusetts
272 cities with a published or estimated rate. A tilde marks an estimate; the figure shown is the highest an address in that city is estimated to pay.
Cities covering the most ZIP codes
- Boston6.25% · 35 ZIP codes
- Springfield6.25% · 15 ZIP codes
- Barnstable6.25% · 13 ZIP codes
- Newton6.25% · 11 ZIP codes
- Worcester6.25% · 11 ZIP codes
- Fall River6.25% · 7 ZIP codes
- New Bedford6.25% · 7 ZIP codes
- Cambridge6.25% · 6 ZIP codes
All 272 cities, A to Z
A 15 cities
B 25 cities
- Barnstable6.25%
- Bedford6.25%
- Belchertown6.25%
- Bellingham6.25%
- Belmont6.25%
- Berkley6.25%
- Berlin6.25%
- Bernardston6.25%
- Beverly6.25%
- Billerica6.25%
- Blackstone6.25%
- Blandford6.25%
- Bolton6.25%
- Boston6.25%
- Bourne6.25%
- Boxborough6.25%
- Boylston6.25%
- Braintree6.25%
- Brewster6.25%
- Bridgewater6.25%
- Brimfield6.25%
- Brockton6.25%
- Brookline6.25%
- Buckland6.25%
- Burlington6.25%
C 16 cities
D 12 cities
E 8 cities
- East Bridgewater6.25%
- East Brookfield6.25%
- East Longmeadow6.25%
- Eastham6.25%
- Easthampton6.25%
- Easton6.25%
- Essex6.25%
- Everett6.25%
F 7 cities
- Fairhaven6.25%
- Fall River6.25%
- Falmouth6.25%
- Fitchburg6.25%
- Foxborough6.25%
- Framingham6.25%
- Franklin6.25%
G 10 cities
- Gardner6.25%
- Georgetown6.25%
- Gill6.25%
- Gloucester6.25%
- Grafton6.25%
- Granby6.25%
- Granville6.25%
- Great Barrington6.25%
- Greenfield6.25%
- Groton6.25%
H 17 cities
I 1 city
- Ipswich6.25%
K 1 city
- Kingston6.25%
L 17 cities
M 22 cities
- Malden6.25%
- Manchester By The Sea6.25%
- Mansfield6.25%
- Marblehead6.25%
- Marlborough6.25%
- Marshfield6.25%
- Mashpee6.25%
- Mattapoisett6.25%
- Maynard6.25%
- Medfield6.25%
- Medford6.25%
- Medway6.25%
- Melrose6.25%
- Mendon6.25%
- Methuen6.25%
- Middleborough6.25%
- Middleton6.25%
- Millbury6.25%
- Millis6.25%
- Milton6.25%
- Monson6.25%
- Montague6.25%
N 21 cities
- Nahant6.25%
- Nantucket6.25%
- Natick6.25%
- Needham6.25%
- New Ashford6.25%
- New Bedford6.25%
- Newbury6.25%
- Newburyport6.25%
- Newton6.25%
- Norfolk6.25%
- North Adams6.25%
- North Andover6.25%
- North Attleborough6.25%
- North Reading6.25%
- Northampton6.25%
- Northborough6.25%
- Northbridge6.25%
- Northfield6.25%
- Norton6.25%
- Norwell6.25%
- Norwood6.25%
O 4 cities
- Oak Bluffs6.25%
- Orange6.25%
- Orleans6.25%
- Oxford6.25%
P 11 cities
- Palmer6.25%
- Paxton6.25%
- Peabody6.25%
- Pembroke6.25%
- Pepperell6.25%
- Phillipston6.25%
- Pittsfield6.25%
- Plainville6.25%
- Plymouth6.25%
- Princeton6.25%
- Provincetown6.25%
Q 1 city
- Quincy6.25%
R 9 cities
S 29 cities
- Salem6.25%
- Salisbury6.25%
- Sandwich6.25%
- Saugus6.25%
- Scituate6.25%
- Seekonk6.25%
- Sharon6.25%
- Sheffield6.25%
- Sherborn6.25%
- Shirley6.25%
- Shrewsbury6.25%
- Somerset6.25%
- Somerville6.25%
- South Hadley6.25%
- Southampton6.25%
- Southborough6.25%
- Southbridge6.25%
- Spencer6.25%
- Springfield6.25%
- Sterling6.25%
- Stockbridge6.25%
- Stoneham6.25%
- Stoughton6.25%
- Sturbridge6.25%
- Sudbury6.25%
- Sunderland6.25%
- Sutton6.25%
- Swampscott6.25%
- Swansea6.25%
T 8 cities
U 1 city
- Uxbridge6.25%
W 36 cities
- Wakefield6.25%
- Walpole6.25%
- Waltham6.25%
- Ware6.25%
- Wareham6.25%
- Warren6.25%
- Watertown6.25%
- Wayland6.25%
- Webster6.25%
- Wellesley6.25%
- Wellfleet6.25%
- Wenham6.25%
- West Boylston6.25%
- West Bridgewater6.25%
- West Brookfield6.25%
- West Springfield6.25%
- West Stockbridge6.25%
- West Tisbury6.25%
- Westborough6.25%
- Westfield6.25%
- Westford6.25%
- Weston6.25%
- Westport6.25%
- Westwood6.25%
- Weymouth6.25%
- Whately6.25%
- Whitman6.25%
- Williamsburg6.25%
- Williamstown6.25%
- Wilmington6.25%
- Winchendon6.25%
- Winchester6.25%
- Winthrop6.25%
- Woburn6.25%
- Worcester6.25%
- Wrentham6.25%
Y 1 city
- Yarmouth6.25%
How exact these figures are
Of 681 ZIP codes in Massachusetts, 583 resolve to a single verified rate for every address inside them.
A ZIP code is a mail route, not a tax boundary. Where one crosses a city or district line, the rate depends on the street address, and no lookup by ZIP code alone can settle it. Enter your ZIP code in the calculator for the closest figure we hold.
Why you can rely on these figures
- Published rates
- State and local rates compiled from the tax authorities that levy them.
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- See the jurisdiction breakdown and the document each rate came from.
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