Tax & Licensing
Starting March 2, 2009 Tax
Audit & Collections and the Licensing Office will be
open
Monday-Thursday 7 a.m. to 6
p.m. (closed Friday)
The Tax Audit / Collections
Office and Licensing Office are
workgroups of the Financial Services Department.
These workgroups are responsible for
licensing, review, audit and ensuring compliance regarding
transaction privilege tax,
use tax,
and transient occupancy tax. The Licensing Office also issues and monitors liquor licenses,
special event licenses and all
specialty licenses such as massage establishments,
secondhand stores, pawnbrokers, scrap metal dealers, auctioneers, peddlers,
transient merchants, transient vendors, sexually oriented businesses and
employees, teen-age dancehalls, fortune tellers and park and swaps.
The City of Mesa does not have a property tax. Please check
Maricopa County for
school and county tax information.
Effective October 1, 2008, all persons applying for
municipal licensing as Individuals, Sole
Proprietors, or Husband & Wife businesses, must
provide evidence of their legal right to be in the
United States in compliance with
A.R.S. 41-1080, also known as the “Legal
Arizona Workers Act.” (for more information
refer to
Transaction Privilege (Sales) & Use Tax
License application)
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