Reverse Sales Tax in Alaska

No statewide sales tax — and what that means for your totals

There is no state sales tax to back out in Alaska

Alaska has no statewide sales tax, so a total taken at a Alaska event generally is your sales figure — there is nothing buried in it to extract at state level.

Alaska is the exception worth knowing: there is no statewide tax, but boroughs and cities may levy their own, so a total taken in one Alaskan town may contain local tax while one taken an hour away does not.

When you still need this

• You sold at a show in another state. That state's rate applies to those sales, and if you priced in round numbers the tax is baked into every one of them.
• You are reconciling a card deposit that mixes events across state lines.
• You are checking a receipt from a purchase made elsewhere.

Pick the state where the sale actually happened from the full list, or run any rate through the reverse sales tax calculator.

Frequently asked questions