Oklahoma sales tax, and who sets it
Tax year 2026
Set by the state
4.5%
Set locally
4.56%
statewide average
Combined
9.06%
Local share
50.33%
of what you pay
Work out the tax on a purchase in Oklahoma
Add the tax on
9.06% effectiveThe general rate applies here: 9.06%, state and local combined. “Statewide average” is a comparison estimate. Named locations use the stored local rate; city and special-district coverage varies, so an address may differ. Rate source · as of 2026-07-01.
How Oklahoma's sales tax is put together
- The state of Oklahoma charges about 4.5% on a sale. Your county charges more than that. The local piece, on average across Oklahoma, is about 4.56%, bringing the whole thing to about 9.06%. So if the rate here bothers you, the people to talk to are local.
- Oklahoma does something in between on food. Groceries are not exempt, and they are not charged the full rate either — they land at about 4.56%. On a thousand dollars of shopping that works out at $46. Any list that sorts states into "taxes food" and "doesn't" puts Oklahoma in the wrong column whichever way it chooses.
- Oklahoma taxes clothes like it taxes everything else. Spend a thousand dollars on apparel and the tax is $91. Some states exempt clothing outright, which sounds minor and is not — it changes what a whole category of spending costs. Prescription drugs are exempt here.
- In Oklahoma the local component of the sales tax is the larger one. Local jurisdictions levy about 4.56% on average across Oklahoma against a state rate of about 4.5%, for a combined about 9.06%. Majority delegation of this kind changes where the accountability sits — the rate is set, and changed, by county and municipal decisions rather than by state tax policy, and it is why intra-state variation here is substantially larger than the state rate alone would suggest.
- Oklahoma applies a reduced rather than zero rate to groceries: food is charged at about 4.56%, against $46 per thousand dollars of grocery spending. This is precisely the case a binary exempt-or-taxed model cannot represent, which is why this site stores exemption treatment as a rate multiplier. Summaries built on the binary classify Oklahoma incorrectly in one direction or the other by construction.
- Apparel falls inside Oklahoma's sales tax base at the full combined rate, contributing $91 per thousand dollars spent. The states exempting clothing form a small group, and base differences of that kind explain more of the variation in real household sales tax burden than headline rates do. Oklahoma exempts prescription drugs, in line with the near-universal national treatment.
Sales tax on this purchase
A $75,000 salary
| Tax added | $9.06 |
|---|---|
| Rate appliedStatewide average | 9.06% |
Uses this location’s stored combined rate and category rule. Clothing is one item; address-level coverage varies.
Rates across this state
A $75,000 salary
| Counties in this state | 77 |
|---|---|
| Different rates among them | 32 |
| Lowest county rate | 4.5% |
| Highest county rate | 8.5% |
County floors only — city, transit and special-district taxes are excluded where applicable.
At the register
A $75,000 salary
| Tax added | $9.06 |
|---|---|
| You hand over | $109.06 |
| Rate here | 9.06% |
Uses this location’s stored combined rate and category rule. Clothing is one item; address-level coverage varies.
How much of that was tax
A $75,000 salary
| Goods before tax | $98.11 |
|---|---|
| Rate applied | 9.06% |
Uses the selected combined rate for ordinary goods. Exempt items or a mixed receipt change the split.
Every county here
A $75,000 salary
| Lowest | 4.5% |
|---|---|
| Highest | 8.5% |
| Gap between them | 4% |
County floors only — city, transit and special-district taxes are excluded where applicable.
What gets taxed, in each
A $75,000 salary
Oklahoma
Statewide average
Texas
Harris County (Houston)
- Sales tax
- Fuel
- Tobacco
| Category | Oklahoma | Texas |
|---|---|---|
| Groceries | 4.56% | Exempt |
| Clothing at $100 | 9.06% | 8.25% |
| Fuel | 19¢ | 20¢ |
| Tobacco | $2.03 | $1.41 |
Grocery and general rates use the locations named here. Clothing is one item priced at $100; a more expensive garment may be taxed differently. Fuel and tobacco have separate units and scales.
Tax-free days in Oklahoma
A $75,000 salary
| Annual Sales Tax Holiday | 2026-08-01 to 2026-08-03 |
|---|
Dates come from statute, so they move with the legislature rather than with a data refresh.
The split, county by county
The state rate is the same everywhere in Oklahoma. Anything beyond it was decided by a county or a city. These counties are a sample chosen to show the range, not a complete list.
| County | State | Local | Combined |
|---|---|---|---|
| Statewide average | 4.5% | 4.56% | 9.06% |
| Oklahoma County (Oklahoma City) | same | 4.13% | 8.63% |
| Tulsa County (Tulsa) | same | 4.02% | 8.52% |
What it costs on a thousand dollars
The same purchase in four categories, priced on average across Oklahoma. A flat thousand dollars is used deliberately — this is Oklahoma's own rate restated in money, not a claim about what anyone spends.
| What you're buying | Tax as share of price | Tax on $1,000 |
|---|---|---|
| General goods | 9.06% | $91 |
| Groceries | 4.56% | $46 |
| Prescription drugs | 0% | $0 |
| Clothing | 9.06% | $91 |
Every county in Oklahoma
This is the whole state, not a sample — 77 counties, from 4.5% in Oklahoma County up to 8.5% in Harmon County. These are county floors. City, transit and special-district taxes can add to them, so an address may pay more.
Complete county coverage for Oklahoma: 77 counties spanning 4.5% (Oklahoma County) to 8.5% (Harmon County), across 32 distinct rates. Figures are county floors: the state rate plus the county's own levy, excluding municipal, transit and special-district taxes. The representative location figures earlier in the page may include additional local layers.
| County | State portion | County levy | Floor (state + county) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adair County | 4.5% | 1.75% | 6.25% |
| Alfalfa County | 4.5% | 2% | 6.5% |
| Atoka County | 4.5% | 2% | 6.5% |
| Beaver County | 4.5% | 2% | 6.5% |
| Beckham County | 4.5% | 0.35% | 4.85% |
| Blaine County | 4.5% | 0.88% | 5.38% |
| Bryan County | 4.5% | 0.5% | 5% |
| Caddo County | 4.5% | 1.5% | 6% |
| Canadian County | 4.5% | 0.35% | 4.85% |
| Carter County | 4.5% | 0.88% | 5.38% |
| Cherokee County | 4.5% | 1.75% | 6.25% |
| Choctaw County | 4.5% | 2% | 6.5% |
| Cimarron County | 4.5% | 2% | 6.5% |
| Cleveland County | 4.5% | 0.13% | 4.63% |
| Coal County | 4.5% | 2% | 6.5% |
| Comanche County | 4.5% | 0.38% | 4.88% |
| Cotton County | 4.5% | 3% | 7.5% |
| Craig County | 4.5% | 2% | 6.5% |
| Creek County | 4.5% | 1.17% | 5.67% |
| Custer County | 4.5% | 0.5% | 5% |
| Delaware County | 4.5% | 1.7% | 6.2% |
| Dewey County | 4.5% | 1.75% | 6.25% |
| Ellis County | 4.5% | 2% | 6.5% |
| Garfield County | 4.5% | 0.35% | 4.85% |
| Garvin County | 4.5% | 0.75% | 5.25% |
| Grady County | 4.5% | 0.75% | 5.25% |
| Grant County | 4.5% | 1.25% | 5.75% |
| Greer County | 4.5% | 2% | 6.5% |
| Harmon County | 4.5% | 4% | 8.5% |
| Harper County | 4.5% | 2% | 6.5% |
| Haskell County | 4.5% | 2% | 6.5% |
| Hughes County | 4.5% | 1% | 5.5% |
| Jackson County | 4.5% | 1.13% | 5.63% |
| Jefferson County | 4.5% | 2% | 6.5% |
| Johnston County | 4.5% | 2% | 6.5% |
| Kay County | 4.5% | 1.25% | 5.75% |
| Kingfisher County | 4.5% | 1.25% | 5.75% |
| Kiowa County | 4.5% | 3% | 7.5% |
| Latimer County | 4.5% | 1.25% | 5.75% |
| Le Flore County | 4.5% | 2.3% | 6.8% |
| Lincoln County | 4.5% | 1% | 5.5% |
| Logan County | 4.5% | 0.75% | 5.25% |
| Love County | 4.5% | 2.5% | 7% |
| Major County | 4.5% | 1.41% | 5.91% |
| Marshall County | 4.5% | 2% | 6.5% |
| Mayes County | 4.5% | 1.38% | 5.88% |
| McClain County | 4.5% | 0.5% | 5% |
| McCurtain County | 4.5% | 1.75% | 6.25% |
| McIntosh County | 4.5% | 2% | 6.5% |
| Murray County | 4.5% | 2% | 6.5% |
| Muskogee County | 4.5% | 1.5% | 6% |
| Noble County | 4.5% | 1.5% | 6% |
| Nowata County | 4.5% | 2% | 6.5% |
| Okfuskee County | 4.5% | 2% | 6.5% |
| Oklahoma County | 4.5% | 0% | 4.5% |
| Okmulgee County | 4.5% | 1.58% | 6.08% |
| Osage County | 4.5% | 1.25% | 5.75% |
| Ottawa County | 4.5% | 1.35% | 5.85% |
| Pawnee County | 4.5% | 2% | 6.5% |
| Payne County | 4.5% | 0.81% | 5.31% |
| Pittsburg County | 4.5% | 1.5% | 6% |
| Pontotoc County | 4.5% | 0.88% | 5.38% |
| Pottawatomie County | 4.5% | 1.49% | 6% |
| Pushmataha County | 4.5% | 2% | 6.5% |
| Roger Mills County | 4.5% | 1.5% | 6% |
| Rogers County | 4.5% | 1.5% | 6% |
| Seminole County | 4.5% | 1.25% | 5.75% |
| Sequoyah County | 4.5% | 1.42% | 5.92% |
| Stephens County | 4.5% | 0.7% | 5.2% |
| Texas County | 4.5% | 1.45% | 5.95% |
| Tillman County | 4.5% | 3% | 7.5% |
| Tulsa County | 4.5% | 0.37% | 4.87% |
| Wagoner County | 4.5% | 1.55% | 6.05% |
| Washington County | 4.5% | 1% | 5.5% |
| Washita County | 4.5% | 2% | 6.5% |
| Woods County | 4.5% | 0.5% | 5% |
| Woodward County | 4.5% | 0.9% | 5.4% |
Streamlined Sales Tax member rate files plus individual state Department of Revenue rate tables — county-level rows only; city, transit and special-district levies excluded — as of 2026-01-01, last verified 2026-08-29.
What this page does not cover
- The first Oklahoma county table and calculator location list are samples, picked to show how much local rates move rather than to cover everywhere. Your address might land outside the range shown. A recent receipt is the better source if you have one.
- One tax, not all of them. What you see here is Oklahoma's general sales tax. Gas, drink and cigarettes are taxed separately and those taxes are usually hidden inside the price. Hotels, restaurant meals and vehicle purchases often carry extra charges of their own on top.
- Exemptions are broader on paper than in a shop. Oklahoma draws its own lines inside each category — what counts as a grocery rather than a prepared meal, what counts as clothing rather than an accessory. Those lines decide the tax on a real basket, and they are where two states with identical rates stop agreeing.
- The first Oklahoma county table and calculator location list are representative samples, not a complete register. It exists to demonstrate the magnitude of local variation, so the highest and lowest figures shown bound the sample rather than the state. Any specific address should be checked against the local revenue authority or a recent receipt; a complete county-floor table, where shown separately, still excludes additional city and district taxes.
- This covers Oklahoma's general sales tax in isolation. Fuel, alcohol and tobacco are subject to per-unit excise regimes that are generally included in the advertised price and are invisible at the point of sale. Lodging, prepared food and motor vehicle transactions commonly carry supplementary state or local levies beyond the general rate, so a transaction in one of those categories is not fully described by anything on this page.
- The exemption classes shown for Oklahoma are broad categories, and the statutory boundaries inside each one govern the actual charge. Prepared and heated food routinely falls outside a grocery exemption; footwear, athletic wear and accessories are commonly carved out of a clothing exemption. Because these definitions differ between states, two jurisdictions with matching rates and matching exemption lists can produce materially different tax on an identical basket.
Questions people ask
Why is the tax at the register higher than the state rate?
Because the state rate is only the first layer. Counties, cities and special districts add their own on top, which takes about 4.5% up to about 9.06% — and it changes as you cross town lines rather than staying put.
Is food taxed at a lower rate here?
Food gets a lower rate rather than an exemption here. That is a deliberate middle path, and it means groceries still carry tax every week.
Is clothing exempt here?
Clothing is ordinary taxable goods in Oklahoma. The states that exempt it are the exception rather than the rule, which catches people moving between them.
Who actually decides what I pay at the register — the state or my town?
Local government, for the larger part. about 50.33% of what you hand over is decided below state level, so the rate follows the address rather than the state line.
What composes the combined rate in this state?
The combined rate is the state levy plus every local levy sourced to the point of sale. Oklahoma sets about 4.5%; the representative combined rate is about 9.06%, of which about 50.33% is decided locally. A single statewide figure is therefore an approximation.
What reduced rate applies to groceries in this state?
Oklahoma applies a preferential reduced rate to groceries rather than a full exemption. Local add-ons may or may not follow the reduced rate depending on state law, so the effective grocery rate is not always the state reduced rate alone.
How is apparel classified for sales tax in this state?
Oklahoma applies the standard rate to apparel with no general exemption. Only a small minority of states exempt clothing, and among those several impose per-item caps or exclude athletic and formal wear, so cross-state assumptions about apparel are unreliable.
What share of the combined rate is locally determined here?
about 50.33% of the representative combined rate in Oklahoma is levied below state level. Rates are sourced to the point of sale, so liability varies within the state and the statewide figure is a weighted representative rather than a statutory rate.