You have selected to update the USA (state level) sales tax controls for your store. This controls how (state level) sales taxes, if any, are to be calculated and applied to orders being shipped to an address within the USA.

Required fields are indicated with a star * after their field name.

SALES TAX CONTROL*

No Sales Tax Calculations Needed (nothing is taxed or taxable) Calculate Sales Tax Automatically and Add to Customer Order Tell Customer Sales Tax May Be Added to Their Order

If you do not want the store to calculate USA sales taxes on any order, select the first option.

Select the second option and complete the state tax fields if you want the store to automatically calculate and add USA sales tax to eligible customer orders.

NOTE: Be sure you ONLY enter tax information for the states that you want the store to collect sales taxes for. If you leave a state's percentage and amount fields blank, the store will assume you do not want to charge sales tax for that state.

Select the third option if you want to calculate and add USA sales tax manually to selected customer orders. This option will just display the phrase "Sales Tax May Be Added To Your Order" as part of the shopping cart checkout and confirmation pages.

IMPORTANT REMINDER: this setting is used for both types of USA sales taxes (at the state and zip code level).

STATE TAX PERCENTAGES
If you want sales taxes collected as a percentage of the total products ordered, then enter a value in the percentage field to the right of the state's name and abbreviation. This percentage will be applied to every order that ships to that state.

Examples: 10.000 for ten percent or 7.500 for seven and one half percent.

NOTE: the store will not let you enter BOTH a tax amount and a tax percentage for the same state.

STATE TAX AMOUNTS
If you want a flat amount of sales tax collected on any order being shipped to a particular state, then enter a value in the amount field to the right of the state's name and abbreviation. This flat amount will be added to every order that ships to that state.

Amounts should be entered in dollars and cents like 10.00 for ten dollars or 7.75 for seven dollars and seventy five cents.

IMPORTANT: Be sure you ONLY enter tax information for the states that you want the store to collect sales taxes for. If you leave a state's percentage and amount fields blank, the store will assume you do not want to charge sales tax for that state.

SALES TAX ON SHIPPING?
Normally, sales tax is applied as a percentage of the total amount of products ordered before shipping costs are added. However, if you want the store to calculate sales taxes on BOTH the products ordered AND the shipping cost, then click the "Sales Tax On Shipping?" checkbox to the far right of the state's name.

FIRST TIME ACCESS: even if you do NOT want sales taxes calculated for your store, you still need to access this page and click the UPDATE button at the bottom of the page in order to complete this section of the store.

NOTE: Coupon savings and purchase discounts are deducted before sales taxes and shipping charges are calculated and added to the customer's order.