Announcing: 2026 US state sales tax as a free MIT-licensed dataset

Short one: we published the full 2026 US state sales tax breakdown as an MIT-licensed dataset on GitHub.

GitHub repo: https://github.com/receiptedit/us-sales-tax-2026

Live API: https://receiptedit.com/api/sales-tax

Schema per state: state_sales_tax_pct, avg_combined_sales_tax_pct, grocery_taxed (true/false/reduced), lodging_taxes[], top_cities, nickname.

5 states have 0% statewide sales tax: AK, DE, MT, NH, OR. LA and TN tie at ~9.55% average combined. 26 states fully exempt groceries. FL has the highest state-level lodging-tax burden.

MIT license — attribution not required, appreciated. If you use it publicly, Data by ReceiptEdit is nice.

All links:

• Dataset https://github.com/receiptedit/us-sales-tax-2026
• API https://receiptedit.com/api/sales-tax
• Per-state pages https://receiptedit.com/sales-tax
• Embed widget https://receiptedit.com/api/embed/sales-tax/california
• Docs https://receiptedit.com/developers
• Product https://receiptedit.com