Chattooga County is seeing an increase in the amount of sales tax that is being collected, due in part to the rising cost of goods and services.  While inflation is driving the sales tax collections up, Georgia does not collect sales taxes on groceries.  Chattooga County tax rate of 7% is lower than 87% of Georgia’s 159 counties and lower than 55% of counties nationally.  No municipalities collect any additional sales tax in the county.  Up until recently, Chattooga County collected around $2.4 million in sales tax each year.  This year, the county will top $3 million in sales tax collections.  That represents about 4.4% increase over last year.