Sales Tax Calculator
Title:Sales Tax Calculator Calculate Total Price with Tax
Description:Add or remove sales tax from prices quickly. Use this Sales Tax Calculator for shopping, business billing, and financial transparency.

Sales Tax Calculator 🛒

This Sales Tax Calculator helps you compute the final cost of items by adding or removing tax amounts. Useful for shoppers and business owners alike.

• 🧾 Add or subtract tax from price
• 💳 Set custom tax rates per region
• 🛍️ Ideal for retail and invoice preparation
  
  Sales Tax Calculator
• Calculate sales tax and total price for purchases with support for multiple tax rates, discounts, and detailed breakdowns
• How to Use This Calculator
• Enter item details including price and quantity
• Apply discounts if applicable
• Select your state and locality for accurate tax calculation
• Add multiple items as needed
• Click “Calculate” to see detailed tax breakdown and total
  Item Details
• Item NamePrice per Item ($)QuantityDiscount (%)Add Item
• Tax Location
• State                         Select a state                         California (7.25%)                         Texas (6.25%)                         New York (4.00%)                         Florida (6.00%)                         Illinois (6.25%)                         Pennsylvania (6.00%)                     City/Locality                         Select a city                         New York City (+4.50%)                         Buffalo (+4.75%)                         Rochester (+4.25%)                     Special Tax Rate (%)
• Calculate
• Calculate Sales TaxClear All
• Items List
• Item
• Price
• Qty
• Discount
• Subtotal
• Sample Product
• $25.00
• 2
• 10%
• $45.00
• ×
• TAX RECEIPT
• Thank you for your purchase!
• Sample Product x 2$45.00
• Subtotal:$45.00
• TAX BREAKDOWN
• State Tax (4.00%):$1.80
• Local Tax (4.50%):$2.02
• Special Tax (0.00%):$0.00
• Total Tax:$3.83
• GRAND TOTAL:$48.83
• Multiple Tax Rates
• Calculate combined state and local tax rates for accurate results
• Discount Support
• Apply percentage discounts to items before tax calculation
• Multiple Items
• Add as many items as needed for complex purchases
• Detailed Receipt
• Get a printable receipt with tax breakdown for your recordes
  
  What is Sales Tax?
• A sales tax is a consumption tax paid to a government on the sale of certain goods and services. Usually, the vendor collects the sales tax from the consumer as the consumer makes a purchase. In most countries, the sales tax is called value-added tax (VAT) or goods and services tax (GST), which is a different form of consumption tax. 
  U.S. Sales Tax
• In the United States, sales tax at the federal level does not exist. At the state level, all (including District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and Guam) but five states do not have statewide sales tax. These are Alaska, Delaware, Montana, New Hampshire, and Oregon. States that impose a sales tax have different rates, and even within states, local or city sales taxes can come into play.
  

A sales tax calculator determines the total cost of purchases including applicable taxes. This practical sales tax calculator helps shoppers budget accurately and businesses calculate correct tax amounts for their products and services.
The sales tax calculator works with different tax rates and locations. This location-aware sales tax calculator accounts for state, county, and city tax rates to provide accurate total costs for purchases anywhere.
Our comprehensive sales tax calculator includes reverse calculations for pre-tax amounts. This versatile sales tax calculator works both ways – calculating tax on a purchase or determining the original price before tax was added.
The sales tax calculator helps businesses ensure compliance with tax regulations. This business-focused sales tax calculator provides accurate tax calculations that support proper bookkeeping and tax reporting requirements.
Professional accountants use our sales tax calculator for client services. This trusted sales tax calculator ensures accurate tax calculations for business transactions and helps maintain proper financial records.
The sales tax calculator also handles multiple tax rates and exemptions. This advanced sales tax calculator accommodates complex tax scenarios including exempt items and varying tax rates within single transactions.
Simplify your tax calculations with our accurate sales tax calculator. This sales tax calculator ensures you never underestimate purchase costs and helps businesses maintain accurate pricing and tax collection procedures.
U.S. History of Sales Tax
When the U.S. was still a British colony in the 18th century, the English King imposed a sales tax on various items on the American colonists, even though they had no representation in the British government. This taxation without representation, among other things, resulted in the Boston Tea Party. This, together with other events, led to the American Revolution. Therefore, the birth of the U.S. had partly to do with the controversy over a sales tax! Since then, sales tax has had a rocky history in the U.S. and this is perhaps why there has never been a federal sales tax. Some of the earlier attempts at sales tax raised a lot of problems. 
How to Deduct Sales Tax in the powerful Country?
Sales tax can be deducted from federal income tax only if deductions are itemized. In general, taxpayers with sales tax as their only deductible expense may find that itemizing deductions is not worth the time. Itemizing deductions also involves meticulous record-keeping and can be tedious work because the IRS requires the submission of sales tax records, such as a year’s worth of purchase receipts. Anyone who plans to itemize should be keeping detailed records, as it will be very helpful in determining the amount of sales tax paid.

After the choice between standard or itemized deductions has been made, taxpayers have to make another decision regarding whether or not to claim either state and local income taxes or sales taxes (but not both). Most taxpayers choose to deduct income taxes as it typically results in a larger figure. With that said, it may be better for taxpayers who made large purchases during the year to deduct sales tax instead of income tax if their total sales tax payments exceed state income tax. 
Compared to sales tax, VAT has the ability to raise more revenue at a given rate. On the other hand, VAT tends to be regressive; that is, it takes proportionately greater amounts from those with lower incomes. Also, the cascading tax is harmful to new and marginal business activities, likely to set off inflationary tendencies, and is detrimental to exports.VAT is the version of sales tax commonly used outside of the U.S. in over 160 countries.