Sales Tax Collection and Reporting

Equaticket can add sales tax to your ticket sales and track what you collect. You are responsible for deciding whether you need to collect tax, registering with your tax authority, and filing and paying it. Equaticket doesn't file or remit tax for you.

Turning it on

1. Open your event's Add tickets step (or the settings of a recurring or timed-entry series).
2. In Sales Tax, tick Collect sales tax on this event.
3. Enter the Tax Rate (%), between 0 and 30. Use the rate for your venue's location. A tax professional or your local government can tell you the right one.
4. Optionally add a Jurisdiction (up to 30 characters). Buyers see it as "Sales Tax (Jurisdiction)".
5. Choose a Tax Mode.

Exclusive or inclusive

Exclusive. Tax is added on top of the ticket price. A $20 ticket at 8.25% costs the buyer $21.65. At checkout, buyers see the ticket subtotal, a separate sales tax line and the total.

Inclusive. Tax is already inside the ticket price. A $20 ticket at 8.25% costs the buyer $20.00, of which $1.52 is tax. Good for round-number prices. Tick Show "Includes Sales Tax" breakdown to buyers during checkout to show a line such as "Includes Sales Tax (Texas) ($1.52)". Leave it unticked to show no tax line.

If your event also has an organizer fee, you choose separately whether the fee is taxed. See Organizer Fees.

Refunds

When you refund a ticket, the tax charged on that ticket is refunded with it. Your reports track tax refunded separately.

Reports

Go to Dashboard > Analytics. Once you've collected any tax, a Tax Summary shows:

• Tax Collected (Gross): tax charged to buyers;
• Tax Refunded: tax returned through refunds;
• Net Tax Collected: gross minus refunded, your remittance figure.

Filter by date range to match your filing period. Each event's Analytics tab has its own Tax Summary too.

On paid plans, Export CSV on the Analytics page includes these tax figures. The Free plan shows the same figures on screen but can't export them.