Sales Tax

Calculate the sales tax to collect on items you sell and generate reports showing the amount collected.

Sales Tax Requires a Paid License

The Sales Tax feature is available on paid Auctria licenses. See the Auctria Pricing Page for more information.

Video: Using Sales Tax

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Sales Tax Options

Auctria's Sales Tax feature supports the following:

OptionDescription
Multiple tax ratesTrack up to three separate sales taxes per category.
Exclusive or Inclusive modeAdd sales tax on top of bid amounts (Exclusive), or calculate it as part of the overall bid amount (Inclusive). See Sales Tax Mode for more information.
Taxable Value capLimit the sales tax calculation to the item's value rather than the total bid amount. See Taxable Value for more information.
Value-based taxApply sales tax to the item's value even if the participant bids more — any amount above the taxable value is treated as a donation and is exempt from sales tax.
Multiple categoriesAssign different items to different sales tax categories to handle varying tax rates across your items.
Tax-exempt participantsMark individual participants as tax-exempt.

Managing Sales Tax Categories

Add a Sales Tax Category

Click Add Sales Tax Category to open the page where you can define your tax rates. See Sales Tax Categories for more information.

Recalculate Sales Tax

Sales tax is applied to an item when a bid is recorded. If you update your Sales Tax Category settings after bids have been placed, use the Recalculate Sales Tax action to update the tax values on existing items.

Recalculate After Any Changes

If you change your Sales Tax Category settings, you must run Recalculate Sales Tax before the updated values will be applied to items that already have bids recorded against them.

After clicking Recalculate Sales Tax, a progress window will appear and close automatically when the process is complete.


Last reviewed: April 2026
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Calculate the sales tax to collect on items you sell and generate reports showing the amount collected.
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