NEW MADRID -- New Madrid County's current countywide sales tax rate is 1.25 percent.
There is a half-cent sales tax which goes to the general revenue fund. It is regulated by a formula which requires if the sales tax goes up, the county's property tax goes down; however, if the sales tax goes down, the property tax rate goes up.
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