Sales tax tools
Everything runs in your browser — nothing is uploaded, no sign-up, no rate limits. Each tool uses the same arithmetic as the calculator on every city page.
Quick answer
To reverse sales tax out of a total, divide the total by one plus the rate as a decimal: a $108.25 receipt at 8.25% is $108.25 ÷ 1.0825 = $100.00 pre-tax, with $8.25 in tax.
All tools
Free, no account, works offline once loaded.
- City distance and radius calculatorStraight-line miles between any two metros, plus every city within 25, 50, 100 or 250 miles with its tax rate.
- Salary needed calculatorHow much you must earn after moving between two metros, using BEA regional price parities for overall costs and housing.
- Rent vs buy calculatorTrue monthly cost of renting against owning, with your city's median home value, median rent and effective property tax rate filled in.
- Moving cost calculatorCity-to-city move estimate from road distance, household weight, movers or rental truck, and destination sales tax on supplies.
- Reverse sales tax calculatorSplit a tax-inclusive receipt total back into the pre-tax price and the tax collected.
- Discount and sales tax calculatorApply a percentage or dollar discount first, then tax the discounted subtotal the way a register does.
- Price, margin and tax calculatorWork backwards from a target margin to a shelf price, then see the tax-inclusive total a customer pays.
Sources & transparency
Calculators run entirely client-side. Default rates you may pull in from a city page come from the source below.
- No external data used — results are computed in your browser from the numbers you enter
- State departments of revenue — published rate tables — state, county, city and special-district sales tax components
Last reviewed August 2026. Figures are published for reference and can change; verify with the source agency before filing or contracting. How we build and check this data.