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Pima County and Tucson

City of Tucson License Section

In short

City of Tucson License Section issues 2 permits we publish for Pima County and Tucson, last verified 2026-10-05. Each carries the fee as the agency publishes it, with a link to the schedule it was read from.

Issued in Pima County

Permits required, with issuing agency, fee, renewal term and the date each record was last verified against its source
City of Tucson Business LicenseCity of Tucson License SectionNo feenot stated in the cited source2026-10-05

Fees shown as a range or formula are set that way by the issuing agency — we do not average them into a single number.

Issued in Tucson

Permits required, with issuing agency, fee, renewal term and the date each record was last verified against its source
Business/Privilege LicenseCity of Tucson License Section$25 non-refundable application fee plus $50 annual license fee; new applicants starting mid-year pay a prorated annual fee — $37.50 (Apr–Jun start), $25.00 (Jul–Sep), $12.50 (Oct–Dec). Renewal is $50 a year, due January 1 and delinquent after the last business day of January; a late renewal is $75.annual — calendar year, renewal due January 12026-09-05

Fees shown as a range or formula are set that way by the issuing agency — we do not average them into a single number.

About each permit

City of Tucson Business LicensePima County

The City of Tucson's Business Services Department page states that the City of Tucson does require business licenses for businesses operating in Tucson. The page directs applications to the City of Tucson License Section, at PO Box 27210, Tucson, AZ 85726-7210, with the email address License@tucsonaz.gov. The license applies inside Tucson city limits and sits on top of the county permits described in the records above. The license amount is not published on the cited tucsonaz.gov page, so this record carries no dollar figure.

Business/Privilege LicenseTucson

A city license distinct from Arizona's $12 state TPT license, which is administered separately by the Department of Revenue and covered at the state layer. Tucson City Code section 19-39 sets every figure above: a $25 nonrefundable application fee, a $50 initial annual fee for applications received on or after 1 January 2015, prorated by the quarter in which the business starts, and a $50 renewal fee due each 1 January. A renewal not received by the last business day of January is delinquent, and the business is treated as operating without a license until it files the renewal and pays a $75 renewal fee. The license is valid only for the calendar year in which it is issued, and the City's own current application form (AP0711) states the same $25 and $50 figures and the same quarterly proration.

Contact

Jurisdiction
Pima County and Tucson
Phone
(520) 791-4566

Contact details are taken from the agency’s own site or its published fee schedule. Where we have not verified a phone number we leave it blank rather than guess.

Sources

Every fee and term above was read from one of these government pages on the date shown.

  1. Apply for a Business License, City of TucsonCity of Tucson · primary source · retrieved 2026-10-05
  2. City of Tucson Business License Application (AP0711)City of Tucson · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-05
  3. Tucson City Code, Chapter 19 (Licenses and Privilege Taxes), Article I, Division 2, Sec. 19-39 — Application fee, annual license fee, annual renewal requirements, penalty (2026 S-150 codification)City of Tucson, published by American Legal Publishing · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-18

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