Taxes in Spring Hill
Spring Hill's property tax is genuinely bimodal by county, not a single citywide figure: a computed effective rate of roughly 0.37% of appraised value on the Maury County side versus roughly 0.51% on the Williamson County side, on top of Tennessee's zero state income tax and a 9.75% combined sales tax.
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Learn moreZero state income tax, a real structural fact
Tennessee levies no state income tax on wages, retirement income, capital gains, or Social Security -- a 2014 constitutional amendment permanently bars any future wage/salary income tax (see tennessee.js for the full statewide history). This applies uniformly to Spring Hill regardless of which county side an address sits on.
A real, computed, county-dependent property tax split
Maury County's 2026 rate is $0.74 per $100 assessed value; Williamson County's is $1.30 per $100 (the same countywide rate cited for Franklin and Brentwood in this dataset); the City of Spring Hill's own FY2026-27 rate is $0.739 per $100, unchanged in that year's budget and applying uniformly citywide. Applying Tennessee's state-constitutional 25% residential assessment ratio: Maury-County-side county+city = ($0.74+$0.739) x 25% = ~0.37% of appraised value; Williamson-County-side county+city = ($1.30+$0.739) x 25% = ~0.51%. This is a same-session computation from cited primary rates, not an independently confirmed aggregator figure -- confirm a specific address's county assignment before budgeting off either endpoint.
A combined 9.75% sales tax, unlike property tax, does NOT vary by county side
Both Maury and Williamson counties levy the same 2.75% local-option sales tax on top of Tennessee's 7% state rate, for a combined 9.75% -- unusually, this means Spring Hill's sales tax rate is one of the few figures in this file that does NOT change depending on which side of the county line an address sits on. This sits slightly above Tennessee's own ~9.61% statewide average, itself the second-highest combined rate in the nation after Louisiana.
Tennessee's realty transfer tax applies at purchase, not annually
A one-time realty transfer tax of $0.37 per $100 of the purchase price/value applies at closing, separate from the ongoing annual property tax rates above -- see buying-a-home.
Key takeaways
- Tennessee has zero state income tax, applying uniformly across Spring Hill regardless of county side.
- Spring Hill's property tax is genuinely bimodal by county: a computed effective rate of ~0.37% of appraised value on the Maury County side versus ~0.51% on the Williamson County side -- confirm a specific address's county before budgeting.
- The combined 9.75% sales tax rate (7% state + 2.75% local) is identical on both sides of the county line, unlike property tax.
- A one-time $0.37/$100 realty transfer tax applies at purchase, separate from the ongoing annual property tax figures above.
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