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Add and manage your Goods and Services Tax (GST) settings

With Square, you can apply taxes to your in-person and online sales, and create custom taxes with specific rules. You can also enable your team members to edit taxes at the time of sale through your team permissions, and track your taxable and non-taxable sales from your Dashboard.

Note:Square’s fees are taken out of the total amount of each transaction (including taxes and tip).

Create in-person sales taxes

Set up tax rates for your in-person operations from either your Dashboard or Square app.

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Create online sales taxes

You can set up tax rates for orders that come from your Square Online site directly in your Square Online Overview page. Learn about setting up taxes for more details.

Disable or delete sales taxes

You can disable or delete your sales tax rates at any time from either your Dashboard or POS. To start:

  • Disable: From the Sales taxes tab, select the tax you wish to disable, then Actions > Disable tax. By disabling, the tax will no longer be applied to purchases.

  • Delete: From the Sales taxes tab, select the tax you wish to delete, then Actions > Delete tax. This action cannot be undone.

Manage item-level taxes

To manage item-level taxes:

  1. From your Square Item Library, select an existing item or create a new one.

  2. Under Details, select Taxes.

  3. Toggle on Non-taxable item if you don’t want the item to be taxed. Toggle it off to apply specific tax rates you’ve created to the item. Click Done.

  4. Click Save when finished.

If you’ve listed the item as non-taxable, taxes won’t be auto-applied to the item on any orders across Square Online or Square Point of Sale.

Note: Sales tax and custom taxes will automatically apply to sales where a custom amount is entered. To disable taxes for custom amounts, visit your tax settings in the app.

Edit taxes at the time of sale

If you need to edit taxes at the time of sale:

  1. From your Point of Sale, tap Checkout > Review sale.

  2. Tap an item.

  3. Under Taxes, toggle applicable tax rates on or off.

Note: From the ‘Current sale’ screen, you can also tap Tax to view all tax rates applied to the current sale. Tap the X icon to remove a tax rate from applicable items within the sale, then tap Save to return to checkout.

Create tax exemptions

You can create tax exemption rules from Dashboard to apply them to sales across your devices. These rules can exempt specific items or categories from taxes. You can also create a tax exemption rule for price thresholds. Learn how to create and manage tax exemption rules with our Tax Exemption Guide.

Manage taxes with the catalogue import tool

Once you’ve created a sales tax, you can apply the tax to your catalogue in bulk via the catalogue import tool. To start:

  1. From your Square Item Library, click Actions > Export Library.

  2. Once your file’s exported, tax columns will appear on the spreadsheet. From here, enter Y or N in each row to apply or not apply the tax rate to the selected item in the catalogue. For large catalogues, items can be sorted by category. A formula can also be written to facilitate the bulk application of tax rates.

  3. Once tax rates have been assigned to items within the spreadsheet, go back to your Square Item Library and click Actions > Import Library to upload any changes.

Note: When editing any existing catalogue items from the spreadsheet, do not edit or remove the value in the Token column. Upon reimporting, the token is used to identify the existing item in the catalogue.

Learn more about item importing and exporting.


DISCLAIMER: Although we’ve built a powerful tax calculation system for Square, Square cannot offer any tax advice or consultation services. Tax compliance is your responsibility. We do not guarantee the applicability or accuracy of our tax tools. If you have any questions about your tax obligations, consider consulting a professional tax advisor.

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