Taxing area polygons
Tax Areas

Sales Tax Areas and Tax Entity Areas

  • Category: Economy
  • Data Type: GIS Data Layer
  • Steward(s): USTC & UGRC
  • Abstract: These datasets are related to taxation in Utah. They were created by the Utah State Tax Commission (USTC) and other local government agencies.

Sales Tax Areas

SalesTaxAreas

Sales Tax Areas contains the approximate boundaries of Sales Tax Collection Areas in Utah. Sales Tax Areas are formed by municipality boundaries, special sales tax districts and the unincorporated areas of counties not in a special sales tax district.

Related Resources

Comments, questions, compliments, or concerns can be directed to the staff from UGRC at ugrc@utah.gov or 801-538-3665.

Downloads and Web Services
  • Utah Sales Tax Zones: SGID Open Data Downloads and APIs
  • Utah Sales Tax Zones: File Geodatabase
  • Utah Sales Tax Zones: Shapefile
Updates
  • Updated 1/31/2019 1st Quarter 2019

Tax Areas

Tax Entities

Tax Areas 2020 contains the set of taxing areas formed by each unique 2-dimensional intersection of incorporated taxing entities in Utah. Each taxing area represents at least a county and school district as members of these two categories cover the entire state. The property tax levy rate within a tax area should be the same for a specified property type within that area.

There are no constraints or warranties with regard to the use of this dataset.

Comments, questions, compliments, or concerns can be directed to the staff from UGRC at ugrc@utah.gov or 801-538-3665.

Downloads and Web Services
  • Utah Tax Areas 2020: SGID Open Data Downloads and APIs
  • Utah Tax Areas 2020: File Geodatabase
  • Utah Tax Areas 2020: Shapefile
Updates
  • January 2021

Transit Special Tax Areas

Economy Transit

Transit Sales Tax Areas are generally areas outside of incorporated municipalities where additional sales tax is collected to support transit activities (generally buses).

Related Resources

Comments, questions, compliments, or concerns can be directed to Nick Kenczka from Tax at NKenczka@utah.gov.

Downloads and Web Services
  • Utah Transit Special Tax Areas: SGID Open Data Downloads and APIs
  • Utah Transit Special Tax Areas: File Geodatabase
  • Utah Transit Special Tax Areas: Shapefile
Updates
  • January 2019
  • March 2018

Tax Entities

TaxEntities

Tax Entities 2020 contains Tax Entities in Utah. Tax Entities are incorporated bodies that have the power to levy a local property tax such as school districts, counties, cities, special service districts, redevelopment districts, library districts, cemetery districts, and mosquito abatement districts. The Tax Entities 2020 dataset does not represent exact legal boundaries, but rather a set of boundaries used for the administrative purposes by the USTC Property Tax Division for centrally assesses properties (quarries, rail, linear utilities, etc).

Tax Entities with...
  • ENT_NBR of 1010 are counties
  • 2000 level ENT_NBR are school districts
  • 3000 level ENT_NBR are incorporated cities/towns
  • 4000 level ENT_NBR are special service districts
  • 6000 level ENT_NBR are special districts
  • 8000 and 9000 level ENT_NBR are redevelopment or community development areas (RDA or CDA)
Related Resources

Comments, questions, compliments, or concerns can be directed to Terri Chidester from Tax at TChidester@utah.gov.

Downloads and Web Services
  • Utah Tax Entities 2020: SGID Open Data Downloads and APIs
  • Utah Tax Entities 2020: File Geodatabase
  • Utah Tax Entities 2020: Shapefile
Updates
  • January 2021