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# Sales Tax Liability

You need to create a [new organization](/billing/help/settings/organization-settings.html#adding-new-organization) and choose the US edition to make use of this feature. Below are a list of operations you can perform with sales tax.

*   [Sales Tax Liability Report](/us/billing/help/sales-tax/sales-tax-liability.html#reports)
*   [Terminologies](/us/billing/help/sales-tax/sales-tax-liability.html#terminologies)

### Sales Tax Liability Report

You can view detailed tax reports which displays clearly the taxable and non-taxable amount for a Tax Authority.

*   Navigate to _Reports_.
*   Select **Sales Tax Liability** under _Taxes_.
*   You’ll be able to see a table with sales with tax, sales, including the taxable and non-taxable amounts and also the actual tax collected.
*   Click _Sales_ to view a table containing the non-taxable sales, names of the taxes the tax authority collects along with corresponding total sales, taxable amount, tax percentage and the actual tax collected.
*   If you further click a _Tax Name_, you’ll be able to view the list of customers who are associated with that tax.
*   Furthermore, if you click _Total Sales_, you’ll be able to view a detailed report of the transactions for that particular tax.
*   Also, if you wish to view the non-taxable sales transactions, click _Total Sales_ next to Non-taxable Sales on your Sales Tax Liability report. You’ll be able to see the exemption reason, description and the non-taxable amount.
*   If you click an _Exemption reason_, you will be able to view a detailed report of all the Non-Taxable Sales transactions, for that exemption reason.

### Terminologies

  

**Name**

**Description**

Tax Name

It simply refers to the name you’d like to assign to a particular tax. For example, Austin can be the name assigned to the sales tax for the city of Austin.

Tax Authority

It refers to the organization in charge of collecting taxes in a specified region. For example, the Travis County Tax Office is the tax authority for Austin, Texas.

Rate

It refers to the tax rate for a particular region in percentage. For example, the tax rate in Austin, Texas is 8.25 (percentage).

Exemption Reason

Users have to enter why a customer/transaction/item is exempt from sales tax. For example, Child Care and Non Profit Organizations are exempt from tax.