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Sales tax

Bfdonuts — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 16:49:32 GMT

I’m a bakery in Connecticut. We have a complicated sales tax law here: sales of less than 5 donuts/muffins/cupcakes are subject to sales tax. Sales of 6 or more donuts/muffins/cupcakes are NOT subject to sales tax. I don’t know if Square supports this, or how to set it up in my POS. I’ve thought of creating a tax exempt item that is “6 or more” but that makes it impossible for me to create a kitchen ticket of what those 6+ items are. I can’t possibly create a modifier list of EVERYTHING that we sell because we have rotating menus and offer customization, and I wouldn’t know how to build a modifier to capture sales of 6 items, 7 items, 8 items, etc. Any ideas?

Re: Sales tax

DinaLRosenberg — Tue, 21 Mar 2023 00:27:33 GMT

Wow- what a wonky law...

Is it 6 in total or 6 of any one..

meaning can it be 2 of each (donut/muffin/cupcake) to get to the 6?

Re: Sales tax

Bfdonuts — Tue, 21 Mar 2023 00:37:05 GMT

Thanks for asking. I know, this tax law is ridiculous. It’s 6 of a kind. So for example: If I sell 6 donuts and 3 coffees, the coffees are taxable and the donuts aren’t. If I sell 3 donuts and 3 muffins, the entire purchase is taxable.

Re: Sales tax

DinaLRosenberg — Tue, 21 Mar 2023 00:40:11 GMT

I don't think square can handle this automatically- what I would do is setup the tax to automatically turn on but have your cashiers toggle off when the customer hits the 6 unit threshold...

So basically you can shut the tax off one item without it affecting all the other item if that makes sense.

Re: Sales tax

Bfdonuts — Tue, 21 Mar 2023 13:45:26 GMT

Thanks, Dina! That’s the answer I was worried about. Manually turning off the sales tax as needed is not something I trust will happen accurately. 😗