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Sales Tax Calculator

Invoicing clients or selling to customers and need to know how much sales tax to charge? Use our simple sales tax calculator to work out how much sales tax you should charge your clients. Input the amount and the sales tax rate, select whether to include or exclude sales tax, and the calculator will do the rest. If you don’t know the rate, download the free lookup tool on this page to find the right state and local rates.

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How to calculate sales tax

Wondering how to figure out sales tax?

Sales tax can be imposed by your state, county or locality. To get the sales tax rate you need you must add together all applicable taxes in your location.

Taxes are never simple, but our handy sales tax lookup tool can help you find the correct minimum combined local and state sales tax rate for your area.

All you need to do is enter your state, and your city or county to find the right rate for you.

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Once you know the local sales tax rate for your area you can use the sales tax formula below to figure out how much to charge your customers on each sale.

Sales tax = total value of sale x sales tax rate

Or make life even easier by using the handy calculator at the top of the page to get the sales tax detail you need.

how to calculate sales tax

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