A new transportation excise tax of 0.3% takes effect on January 1, 2015, in Coconino County, Arizona.
The addition of the transportation excise tax raises the rate to 6.9% for the following transactions:
- Amusements
- Communications
- Job printing
- Pipelines
- Prime contracting
- Private Railcar
- Publishing
- Rentals of personal property
- Restaurant and bar
- Retail
- Transient lodging (hotel/motel)
- Transporting
- Utilities
Other rates
- Commercial lease: 0.3%
- Jet fuel excise tax: 3.69 cents
- Non metal mining: 40.5%
- Use tax: 5.6%
- Use tax inventory: 5.6%
- Use tax-utilities: 5.9%
Transaction privilege tax Arizona Department of Revenue website.
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