Hendersonville, TN Local Taxes & Fees: Business Tax Classification (2026)
Key Facts
- Governing act
- TN Business Tax Act rates
- Contractor/exterminator minimum
- $15 per year
- License required
- Before operating
- Issued by
- City Recorder
Summary
Hendersonville levies the state Business Tax Act privilege tax on every taxable vocation, occupation, and business in the city and requires a privilege license before operating.
There is hereby levied on all vocations, occupations, and businesses declared by the general laws of the state to be privileges taxable by municipalities, an annual privilege tax in the maximum amount allowed by state laws. The taxes provided for in the state's "Business Tax Act" (Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 67-4-701, et seq.) are hereby enacted, ordained, and levied on the businesses, business activities, vocations, or occupations doing business or exercising a taxable privilege as provided by said Act, in the City of Hendersonville, Tennessee, at the rates and in the manner prescribed by the said Act, with the exception of the minimum payment of tax for exterminators and contractors. The minimum payment of tax for exterminators and contractors will be fifteen dollars ($15.00) per annum. The proceeds of the privilege taxes herein levied shall accrue to the general fund.
(Ord. 1970-10, May 1970, as amended by Ord. 1971-6, July 1971)
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Code of Ordinances: Supplement 4).
Full Breakdown
City Code Section 5-401 levies an annual privilege tax on every vocation, occupation, and business the state's Business Tax Act (T.C.A. Section 67-4-701 et seq.) makes a taxable municipal privilege, collected at that Act's rates except that exterminators and contractors pay a flat $15 minimum instead. Section 5-402 then bars exercising any such privilege in the city without a currently effective privilege license issued by the City Recorder once regulatory provisions are met and the tax is paid.
Violations & Fines
Exercising a taxable business privilege without a current license is unlawful; the Recorder withholds the license until the applicant meets regulatory provisions and pays the appropriate privilege tax.
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