Sales Tax Amount and Sales Tax Rate
What is the "Sales Tax"? What is the "Sales Tax Rate"?
- The Sales Tax is a consumption tax imposed by states, counties or/and cities and municipalities in the United States on the sale of goods and services.
- The sales tax is paid by the final consumer to the retailer at the point of sale as a percentage of the selling price of the sold good or service.
- This percentage, called the Sales Tax Rate, varies from state to state, in Texas for example there is a general sales tax rate of around 6.25%.
Formulas: How to reverse calculate the Sales Tax and the Selling Price Without the Sales Tax out of the Final Sales Tax Charged Price?
- "Sales tax amount" = "Sales tax rate%" × "Price without sales tax"
- "Sales tax charged price"
- = "Price without sales tax" + "Sales tax amount"
- = "Price without sales tax" + "Sales tax rate%" × "Price without sales tax"
- = "Price without sales tax" × (1 + "Sales tax rate%")
- In conclusion:
- "Price without sales tax" = "Sales tax charged price" ÷ (1 + "Sales tax rate%")
Example of reverse calculating the Sales Tax and the List Selling Price out of the Final Price with the tax
- Let's say that a person who lives in an area where the sales tax rate is 5% bought some cider and had to pay a total of a $525 dollar bill that included the sales tax.
- "Price without sales tax"
- = "Sales tax charged price" ÷ (1 + "Sales tax rate%")
- = $525 ÷ (1 + 5%)
- = $525 ÷ (1 + 5/100)
- = $525 ÷ (1 + 0.05)
- = $525 ÷ 1.05
- = $500 dollars.
- That person had to pay a "Sales tax amount"
- = "Sales tax charged price" - "Price without sales tax"
- = $525 - $500
- = $25 dollars.