Streamlined Tax Lookup

Streamlined Tax Lookup

The Sales and Use Tax Lookup can assist you in locating a sales tax rate for taxing jurisdictions in Arkansas. Vendors and sellers, as well as the general public can use this system. You may search by address or zip code for the city, county and state sales and use tax rates.

Sales and Use Tax Section Local Lookup Tools

Other functions include supplying client databases to have rate and boundary information appended to your records. You may also download files that can provide your computer system its own database of rates and boundaries.

The sales and use tax boundaries in Arkansas are limited to the cities and counties which have enacted a sales tax.

To report errors with the Arkansas Streamline Sales and Use Tax Online Lookup system email sales.tax@dfa.arkansas.gov

Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Downloads

The Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Project requires states to provide the data necessary for businesses and certified service providers that can use the information in their own systems.

Rate Database Table | Updated 04/05/2023
This table provides Arkansas’ taxing jurisdictions and rates by Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) codes in Comma Separated Value (.csv) format. The FIPS code for the State of Arkansas is 05. Each city and county with a sales tax is also listed by FIPS code and contains the respective rate. The effective dates of each rate are also listed. This information is provided for the user to transfer this data to their own program to assist them in determining tax rates from their own system.

Boundary Database Table | Updated 04/05/2023
The Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Project requires states to provide the data necessary for businesses and certified service providers that can use the information in their own systems. This table includes all 9 digit and 5 digit ZIP codes conforming to the Streamlined Sales Tax Project Rates and Boundary Database Instructional Paper dated May, 2005 in zip compression (.zip) format.

Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Uploads

The State of Arkansas provides a service where users can upload customer address lists for sales tax rates processing. The system will return the appropriate sales tax rates. Users are required to register for this service.



Upload/Return File Instructions

File Upload Site | Registration required. Opens in new window.  


The Upload File

 Rates and jurisdictions provided through this upload are subject to revision on a calendar year basis. Submitted files must be in comma delimited text format (.TXT) with no header row and with the following fields in the order specified in the Upload File Format description below. Note: The Address, City, Zip Code, and Month/Year fields are required and must contain valid alpha/numeric text. If the field is optional, you may leave that field blank in your file, but you need to account for the field in the comma delimited format. If you have any questions concerning the Upload File Format, please review the sample file at the bottom of this page.

Note: The system has a file size limit of 5 megabytes. Files exceeding the limit will not be processed. 
  

Upload File Format 

The Structure of the upload file is as follows:

Field NameDescriptionFormat Length
User#*Unique RecordID numeric
Address**Street Name and Numberalpha/numeric 61
SuiteSuite, P.O.Box, Apt, Lotalpha/numeric61
City**City Namealpha 29
StateState Abbreviation (AR only)alpha 2
Zip Code**5-digit Zip Codenumeric 5
Zip Plus 4Zip-4 Extensionnumeric 4
Year/Month**YYYYMM Formatnumeric 7

 * The User # field in the file format pertains to the record number in which you identify this address.
     (Name must be unique.)

** Address, City, Zip Code and Month/Year are required fields.  
  

Retrieving Updated Address Table

 Following your submission, a batch process will be run on your uploaded text file. Upon completion of the batch process, an e-mail will be sent to the primary e-mail for the user account that was used to upload the text file. The e-mail will contain a link to two dowloadable files “{original_table_name}_Result.txt” and {original_table_name}_Match.txt”. 
  

Result File Format 

The structure of the results file is as follows:

Field NameDescriptionFormat Length
User #Unique Record IDnumeric
AddressStreet Name and Numberalpha/numeric 61
SuiteSuite, P.O. Box, Apt, Lotalpha/numeric 61
CityCity Namealpha 29
StateState Abbreviation (AR only)alpha 2
Zip Code**5-digit Zip Codenumeric 5
Zip Plus 4Zip-4 Extensionnumeric 4
Year/Month**YYYYMM Formatnumeric 7
CityName of the City in which address was locatedalpha 29
City FIPSFIPS Code of Citynumeric 12
City TaxTax Rate of Citynumeric 6
CountyName of County in which address was locatednumeric 12
County TaxCounty Tax for address locationnumeric 6
Special TaxJurisdiction (STJ) Special Tax Jurisdictionalpha 3
STJ FIPSFIPS Code for the Special Tax Jurisdictionnumeric 5
STJ TaxTax Rate for Special Tax Jurisdictionnumeric 6
Additional STJ Additional Special Tax Jurisdictionalpha 3
STJ FIPSFIPS Code for the Special Tax Jurisdictionnumeric 5
STJ TaxTax Rate for Special Tax Jurisdictionnumeric 6
State FIPSFIPS Code of State of Arkansasnumeric 2
State TaxTax Rate for State of Arkansas

Match File Format

 Structure of the match file is as follows:

Field NameDescriptionFormat Length
UserCorresponding Unique ID from Result Filenumeric
AddressMatch Street Name and Numberalpha/numeric 61
SuiteSuite, P.O. Box, Apt, Lotalpha/numeric 61
CityCity Namealpha 29
StateState Abbreviation (AR only)alpha 2
Zip Code5-digit Zip Codenumeric 5
Zip Plus 4Zip-4 Extensionnumeric 4
Year/MonthYYYYMM Formatnumeric 7
Match CodeYYYYMM Formatnumeric 4

Match Codes 

Match CodeDescription
0Low Level Zip Code Match
1Five digit Zip Code Match
2Zip + 2 Match
3Zip + 4 Match
10Street Level Match
20Address Level Match
30Street Intersection Match
40High Level Zip Code Match


Example Files

Sample Upload File
1,5457 BLUEBIRD ST,,ALEXANDER,AR,72002,9769,200506
2,3509 CENTARK CIRCLE,,ALEXANDER,AR,72002,,200506
3,,PO BOX 51,ALMA,AR,72921,0051,200506
4,1403 NORTH ARKANSAS AVE,,ALMA,AR,72921,7283,200506
5,9105 CORNERSTONE RD,,ALTHEIMER,AR,72004,,200506
6,9010 SWANLAKE RECREATION,,ALTHEIMER,AR,72004,8406,200506
7,123 MILLER ST,,ALTUS,AR,72821,9135,200506
8,,PO BOX 174,ALTUS,AR,72821,,200506
Sample Return File
1,5457 BLUEBIRD ST,,ALEXANDER,AR,72002,9769,200506,,,,Saline,125,0.37,,,,,,,05,6.0
2,3509 CENTARK
3,,PO BOX 51,PO BOX 51,ALMA,AR,72921,0051,200506,,,,Saline,125,0.37,,,,,,,05,6.0
4,1403 NORTH ARKANSAS AVE,,ALMA,AR,72921,7283,200506
5,9105 CORNERSTONE RD,,ALTHEIMER,AR,72004,8503,200506,,,,Jefferson,069,1.5,,,,,,,05,6.0
6,9010 SWANLAKE RECREATION,,ALTHEIMER,AR,72004,8406,200506,,,,Jefferson,069,1.5,,,,,,,05,6.0
7,123 MILLER ST,,ALTUS,AR,72821,9135,200506,Altus,01210,1,Franklin,047,1.5,,,,,,,05,6.0
8,,PO BOX 174,PO BOX 174,ALTUS,AR,72821,0174,200506,Altus,01210,1,Franklin,047,1.5,,,,,,,05,6.
8,,PO BOX 174,ALTUS,AR,72821,,200506
Sample Match File
1,5457 BLUEBIRD ST,,ALEXANDER,AR,72002,9769,200506,20
2,3509 CENTARK CIRCLE,,ALEXANDER,AR,72002,2860,200506,20
3,PO BOX 51,PO BOX 51,ALMA,AR,72921,0051,200506,1
4,1403 NORTH ARKANSAS AVE,,ALMA,AR,72921,7283,200506,20
5,9105 CORNERSTONE RD,,ALTHEIMER,AR,72004,8503,200506,20
6,9010 SWANLAKE RECREATION,,ALTHEIMER,AR,72004,8406,200506,20
7,123 MILLER ST,,ALTUS,AR,72821,9135,200506,20
8,PO BOX 174,PO BOX 174,ALTUS,AR,72821,0174,200506,1

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