San Antonio updates local sales and use taxes for 2026

What’s changing

Effective January 1, 2026, Texas local sales and use tax updates include:

• The abolition of an additional city sales and use tax in San Antonio that was imposed for a sports venue purpose.
• Updated transit district tax treatment for the San Antonio Advanced Transportation District.
• The creation of new combined local tax areas where city boundaries overlap with emergency services districts.
• These changes affect the total combined sales tax rate at the address level, even though the Texas state sales tax rate itself is unchanged.

San Antonio sales tax changes

San Antonio is eliminating a specific city-level sales and use tax while other local components remain in place. Specifically:

• The city has abolished the additional sales and use tax previously imposed for sports venue funding.
• The San Antonio Advanced Transportation District and Metropolitan Transit Authority taxes continue to apply.
• The change affects San Antonio addresses located in both Bexar County and portions of Medina County, depending on location.
• As a result, sellers may see a different combined local rate for San Antonio transactions beginning January 1, 2026, even though multiple local taxes still apply.

San Antonio local tax components affected

Effective January 1, 2026, the following changes apply to sales sourced to San Antonio addresses:

City sports venue sales tax

• Status: Eliminated
• Previous rate: 1.125%
• Purpose: Sports venue funding

Advanced Transportation District (ATD)

• Rate: 0.375%
• Boundary: Matches the City of San Antonio

Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA)

• Rate: 0.500%
• Continues to apply where applicable

County treatment

• Applies to San Antonio addresses in both Bexar County and Medina County, depending on location
• These changes adjust the combined local sales tax rate at the address level, not just the city component.

New combined area sales tax jurisdictions

Texas has created new combined areas to administer sales and use tax where cities overlap with emergency services districts. These combined areas require sellers to apply a single combined local rate based on the destination address.

New combined areas effective January 1, 2026 include:

• Briarcliff / Travis County Emergency Services District No. 8-A. Applies to areas within Travis County ESD No. 8-A annexed by the City of Briarcliff on or after June 25, 2025.
• Liberty Hill / Williamson County Emergency Services District No. 4-A. Applies to areas within Williamson County ESD No. 4-A annexed by the City of Liberty Hill on or after August 13, 2025.
• Todd Mission / Montgomery County Emergency Services District No. 10. Applies to areas annexed for limited purposes by the City of Todd Mission, including areas subject to a strategic partnership agreement with Colton Municipal Utility District No. 2.

Who this affects

• Sellers with physical locations in affected Texas jurisdictions
• Remote sellers shipping taxable goods or services to Texas customers
• Marketplace facilitators responsible for collecting Texas local sales tax
• Accounting and tax teams managing Texas address-level tax calculation

If you use TaxCloud: TaxCloud applies San Antonio sales tax at the destination address level, including updated city, transit district, and combined-area rates effective January 1, 2026, so sellers do not need to maintain local jurisdiction logic manually.

Next steps for sellers

• Calculation: Ensure sales tax systems apply the correct combined Texas state and local rates for transactions occurring on or after January 1, 2026.
• Review: Identify customer delivery addresses in San Antonio and in newly created combined areas.
• Reporting: Confirm January 2026 returns reflect the updated local tax structure where applicable.