Hold Onto Your Hats: New Jersey Sales Tax is Going Down

Dec 5, 2019 | News, Uncategorized

Beginning January 1, 2017 the rate drops from 7% to 6.875%. Next year there will be another decrease to 6.625%. There has been no change in the items subject to sales tax.

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