Washington DC goes to 7% sales tax on 1 October 2026
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- Jurisdiction
- United States
- Tax
- Sales Tax
- Change type
- Rate change
- Status
- Enacted
- Impact
- Action required
- Announced
- 6 December 2025
- Effective
- 1 October 2026
- Instrument
- US-DC-LAW-26-55-2025
- Authority
- Council of the District of Columbia — DC Law Library
- Systems
- Tax engine, POS, E-commerce, ERP, Invoicing
- Verified
- Fetched from official source · high confidence
Retailers making taxable sales in the District of Columbia. Two values to check, not one: the rate rises from 6.0% to 7.0% on 1 October 2026, and the previously scheduled 6.5% interim step from October 2025 was repealed — so a system configured for 6.5% today is already wrong.
Schedule a District of Columbia sales and use tax rate change from 6.0% to 7.0% in tax-engine, POS and e-commerce systems effective 1 October 2026.
Tax enginePOSE-commerceERPInvoicing
The District of Columbia Fiscal Year 2026 Budget Support Act of 2025 (D.C. Law 26-55, enacted 6 December 2025) amends D.C. Code § 47-2202 to raise the general sales and use tax rate from 6.0% to 7.0% with effect from 1 October 2026. The same act repealed a previously scheduled 6.5% interim step that would have applied from 1 October 2025, so the rate remains 6.0% until 1 October 2026.
What changed in detail
The Fiscal Year 2026 Budget Support Act of 2025 (D.C. Law 26-55) amends D.C. Code § 47-2202 to raise the general sales and use tax rate from 6.0% to 7.0% from 1 October 2026. A previously scheduled 6.5% interim step from 1 October 2025 was repealed, so the rate stays at 6.0% until then.
What it means
A full point in one step, with the repealed interim step meaning systems that were configured for 6.5% in 2025 may hold a wrong value today as well as a wrong future one.
Proof
The rate of tax imposed by this section on the sales price of such tangible personal property and services shall be 6.0% before October 1, 2026, and 7.0% beginning on October 1, 2026, and continuing thereafter;
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