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Gwinnett County

Gwinnett County Licensing & Revenue Office, Dept. of Planning & Development

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Gwinnett County Licensing & Revenue Office, Dept. of Planning & Development issues 2 permits we publish for Gwinnett County, last verified 2026-10-02. Each carries the fee as the agency publishes it, with a link to the schedule it was read from.

What this agency issues

Permits required, with issuing agency, fee, renewal term and the date each record was last verified against its source
Business/Occupation Tax CertificateGwinnett County Licensing & Revenue Office, Dept. of Planning & DevelopmentA non-refundable, non-prorated $80.00 flat fee for certificate issuance, plus a per-class gross-revenue rate. Gwinnett has established six tax classes, with rates ranging from $0.65 per thousand dollars of gross revenue to $1.30 per thousand dollars of gross revenue. The county's online Tax Calculator assigns the specific class only after a business submits its open date and NAICS code; no static class-to-NAICS table is published anywhere on the county's site, so the class-specific rate for a given industry is not stated here.Annual; renewal due February 15. A $25.00 late fee applies after the deadline, with an additional 10% penalty after March 31 plus 1.5% monthly interest.2026-10-02
Alcoholic Beverage License (County Layer, Unincorporated Gwinnett)only if it applies to youGwinnett County Licensing & Revenue Office, Dept. of Planning & DevelopmentThe dollar fee for this county license is not published in any public Gwinnett County document; the amount is disclosed only after logging into the county's authenticated Business Tax Portal. Contact the Licensing & Revenue Office, 678-377-4100, for the current amount.Annual; county renewal deadline November 30, with online renewal by November 1 to receive the renewed license by January 1.2026-10-02

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

Business/Occupation Tax Certificate

Every business operating in unincorporated Gwinnett County needs this certificate from the Licensing & Revenue Office, 75 Langley Drive, Lawrenceville; a business located inside any of Gwinnett's 17 incorporated cities instead applies to that city's own government. The certificate costs an $80.00 flat issuance fee plus a per-class rate on gross revenue, ranging from $0.65 to $1.30 per $1,000.00, under six tax classes the county's own page states directly but does not map to specific industries anywhere outside its interactive Tax Calculator. Applicants also need a GA Dept. of Revenue Sales & Use Tax number if selling goods, a Certificate of Occupancy or Tenant Name Change Permit, and — for employers with 10 or more employees, since July 1, 2013 — an E-Verify affidavit under the Georgia Illegal Immigration Reform and Enforcement Act of 2011. Every applicant must also execute a legal-presence affidavit under O.C.G.A. §50-36-1(1).

Alcoholic Beverage License (County Layer, Unincorporated Gwinnett)

A restaurant or coffee shop serving alcohol in unincorporated Gwinnett County needs this county Alcoholic Beverage License from the Licensing & Revenue Office, administered alongside its separate, centrally-run state license. Georgia's Dept. of Revenue, Alcohol & Tobacco Division runs a statewide centralized online application through the Georgia Tax Center under O.C.G.A. §3-2-7.1, which both the state and 'any local governing authority... that issues licenses or permits to retailers' are required to use. Per its application PDF, Gwinnett's own county license requires a notarized Statement of Personal History for every owner, officer, or member with 20% or more interest (Code §6-6(b)-(c)), a Gwinnett-resident registered agent (§6-8(h)), a certified survey for a previously unlicensed location (§6-9), and is non-transferable upon a change of ownership (§6-13). Annual renewal is due November 30, with online renewal by November 1 needed to receive the renewed license by January 1. The dollar fee for this county license is not published in any public source; contact Licensing & Revenue for the current amount.

Contact

Jurisdiction
Gwinnett County
Phone
678-377-4100

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. Gwinnett County Alcohol License Renewal procedureGwinnett County Licensing & Revenue Office · primary source · retrieved 2026-10-02
  2. Gwinnett County Alcoholic Beverage License Application (quotes Gwinnett County Code §§6-6(b)-(c), 6-8(h), 6-9, 6-13)Gwinnett County Licensing & Revenue Office · primary source · retrieved 2026-10-02
  3. Gwinnett County Licensing & Revenue — Business License pageGwinnett County Dept. of Planning & Development · primary source · retrieved 2026-10-02
  4. O.C.G.A. §3-2-7.1, Centralized statewide application process for alcohol retailer licenses and permitslaw.justia.com (Code of Georgia mirror) · primary source · retrieved 2026-10-02
  5. O.C.G.A. §48-13-6, County occupation tax on unincorporated-area businesses; authority to classify and set rateslaw.justia.com (Code of Georgia mirror) · primary source · retrieved 2026-10-02

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