Wa Sales Tax

Use this app to find the sales and use tax rate* and code for any location in Washington. You can look up rates by your current location (using GPS), address, or zip code. It’s an ideal tool if you make deliveries to your customers in multiple locations.

Category	Price	Seller	Device
Business	Free	Washington State Department of Revenue	iPhone, iPad, iPod

*Sales tax rates for lodging, motor vehicle sales and rentals, and liquor are different than the general rate and are not included in this app.

Features
This app offers features that make it easier to collect and keep track of sales tax on-the-go:
Calculate total amount due
•Calculate the total amount to collect from your customer—sales price plus sales tax—when you enter the amount of the sale.
Save your locations
•Keep track of the locations you’ve looked up by saving them to a list.
•The list includes: date, address, location code, tax rate, confirmation code, effective dates of the rate at that location, and—if you used the calculator—taxable amount, tax due, and total.
•Allows you to add a title to each entry for easier tracking
Send your location
•Email or text a location entry to yourself or someone else.
•The entry includes: date, address, location code, tax rate, confirmation code, effective dates of the rate at that location, and—if you used the calculator—taxable amount, tax due, and total.
Map
•View a location on a map—either your current location (using GIS), or a location you’ve searched for.

How to look up a tax rate  Using your current location
•From the home view, tap the Current Location button; the system will find your present location and display the tax rate information*.
Using an address or zip+4
•Key the address or zip code +4 into the appropriate field(s).
•Tap Done; the system will find your present location and display the tax rate information*.
*Sometimes an exact match can’t be found. You may use the rate the app provides if it’s within 100 meters of the location.
Once you have the tax rate, you can:
•Calculate total amount due by tapping the Calculate button, keying in the sale amount, and tapping Done. You can save or send this information along with the other information in your entry. Follow the instructions below.
•Save it to your list by entering a title (if you want one) and tapping the Save button. To edit a title or delete an entry, tap Edit and enter your new title or tap the minus icon (-) next to the entry.
•View your list by tapping the List button on the bottom of your search screen.
•Send it via text or email by tapping the Send.

Tips
•Save your confirmation code! This is your record if you’re ever audited.
•You can tap the Cancel button if you make a mistake.
•Use the Back button to return to your home view.
•Rates can change quarterly. Check back often to get the latest tax rate.
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Reviews

No updates in 3 years?
perkeyburger

I got this app because the website tax calculator suggested it. I was looking specifically at car tax rates, which is different than my local tax rate, but that option isn’t available on the app. Even more disappointed the state thinks you just make an app and that’s it. Apps require updates in code for security (c’mon we’re putting addresses in here!) and features, like the car tax calculations. I could see all kinds of uses for this, if they’d only give it support.

Why did you ruin it?
kenswing

This was a great app. Now it’s slow. Several times it’s told me I was out of state. Worst of all is you changed the size of the numbers. Now I can’t see them without my glasses.

Effectively useless
Notapaidreviewer

Lacks categories of goods and services to determine if they're taxable and by how much. There's no state tax rate and local rate for a given county. App is pathetic.

2.0 no improvement
UserNameDrew

2.0 is not an improvement didn’t need to change the format it’s less convenient to use and smaller text

New version much improved
HappyDitches

I like the new version. Fixed the bugs from the iOS updates that made words disappear. Plus being able to send multiple saves entries from the list, and in a format that can be imported into an accounting program is awesome!

Must use full address or Tax rates incorrect
Burn One

You must search with full addresses to get the correct tax rate. I’ve looked up a couple locations and the tax rate is reporting back incorrectly if I only put in the city and zip. For example if you put in Tacoma , 98406 it comes up as .093 which is incorrect. But, if you use a full address in a 98406 zip code it comes up correctly at .102 . Be careful, this could cause mobile vendors a lot of money over time if you don’t put in the full address of the location you are at. Users Be careful ?

Our ancestors were amazing
Still on the wheel

Washington State is very hard to do business in. Once you had to know the hundreds of tax rates for all the tiny little tax districts a contractor would do business in. With this app and a little luck, you can actually charge the correct tax at a residential or commercial address with the push of a button. In a year I work in several hundred tax areas and I don’t care, just open the app and get it right every time, no arguing.