Excite Tax keeps books online for Lehi, Provo, Orem and Lindon firms, where sales tax runs 7.35% to 7.45% by city (Utah State Tax Commission, October 1, 2026).
Yes. Excite Tax keeps the books for small businesses in Provo, Orem, Lehi, Lindon, American Fork, Pleasant Grove, Spanish Fork, Springville and Saratoga Springs, and anywhere else in Utah County, online. Records are shared electronically, so nothing needs a drive to an office.
7.35% to 7.45% as of October 1, 2026: 7.45% in Provo, Orem, Lehi and the other larger cities, and 7.35% outside city limits. The table below has each city's location code.
Recording every sale and expense, matching the ledger to each bank and card statement, and keeping sales tax out of income. A $100 taxable sale in Orem collects 7.45%, so $7.45 belongs in sales tax payable, not revenue. The worked example runs a full quarter.
It depends on the side of the county line. The Tax Commission lists Draper City South, in Utah County, at 7.35%, and Draper, in Salt Lake County, at 7.45%, so a Draper mailing address does not settle it. More below.
Ask each candidate which sales-tax location code your place of business uses, and why. Near the Point of the Mountain the answer changes the rate. More under choosing a bookkeeper.
Rates In effect as of October 1, 2026 … Utah County 25-000 4.85% * 1.00% 0.25% 0.25% 0.30% 0.25% 0.25% 0.20% 7.35% … Provo 25-090 4.85% * 1.00% 0.25% 0.25% 0.30% 0.25% 0.25% 0.20% 0.10% 7.45%
Read plainly: every city and town in Utah County charges between 7.35% and 7.45% combined, as of October 1, 2026. The chart is the Tax Commission's own, and it is the rate a Utah County business charges its customers and owes on its sales-tax return.
Combined sales and use tax rates in effect as of October 1, 2026, Utah State Tax Commission.
| Location | Location code | Combined rate |
|---|---|---|
| Provo | 25-090 | 7.45% |
| Orem | 25-083 | 7.45% |
| Lehi | 25-066 | 7.45% |
| Lindon | 25-070 | 7.45% |
| American Fork | 25-002 | 7.45% |
| Pleasant Grove | 25-088 | 7.45% |
| Spanish Fork | 25-103 | 7.45% |
| Springville | 25-106 | 7.45% |
| Saratoga Springs | 25-098 | 7.45% |
| Unincorporated Utah County | 25-000 | 7.35% |
The gap between the two rates is one column of the chart: the cities' rows carry a 0.10% Botanical, Cultural, Zoo Tax that the unincorporated county's row does not.
One area in the county is higher. The MIDA MVP Utah County area, which the chart marks as not an incorporated city or town, is at 8.95%.
One quarter earlier, the July 1, 2026 chart listed the same 7.35% and 7.45%, and the Provo example below is worked at those rates. A new chart arrives every quarter, so the rate set up in the books is checked against each one.
Silicon Slopes runs from Lehi to the Point of the Mountain, where Utah County meets Salt Lake County, and the county line runs through Draper. The Tax Commission lists the two sides separately: Draper City South, in Utah County, at 7.35%, and Draper, in Salt Lake County, at 7.45%.
A mailing address that says Draper does not settle which rate applies. The location code for each place of business is worth confirming when the books are set up, so the rate on the sales-tax return matches the place the business actually operates from.
A Provo shop sells $20,000 of taxable goods from July through September and charges 7.45%. The same sales outside city limits would carry 7.35%.
Sales tax collected on $20,000 of taxable sales in one quarter, at the July 1, 2026 rates.
| Location | Rate | Sales tax collected | Owed to the state |
|---|---|---|---|
| Provo | 7.45% | $1,490.00 | $1,490.00 |
| Unincorporated Utah County | 7.35% | $1,470.00 | $1,470.00 |
Selling into Utah County from another state works differently: out-of-state sellers source by the customer's ZIP +4, not by this chart. When a remote seller has to collect at all is covered in when a small business has to collect Utah sales tax. Sales that do not carry the combined rate at all, such as groceries and restaurant meals, are worked through on the Salt Lake County page and in restaurant bookkeeping.
Excite Tax's services are the same across Utah: bookkeeping, monthly close, catch-up, new-business setup and payroll coordination. What a Utah County setup adds is the location code: each place of business is registered under one, and near the Point of the Mountain the code decides the rate. A candidate who cannot say which code your address uses has not looked. The rest of the checklist is in how to choose a bookkeeper, and who stands behind Excite Tax's work is on credentials.
Excite Tax works online across Utah Valley, from north county in Lehi, Lindon, American Fork, Pleasant Grove and Saratoga Springs to Orem and Provo and south county in Spanish Fork and Springville. Excite Tax has no office in Utah County; records are shared electronically and questions are answered without a meeting in person.
Working across the county line as well? The Salt Lake County page covers the other side of the Point of the Mountain, and how Salt Lake County and Utah County business rules differ compares the two.
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