@deleonck Welcome to the community. On Square Online, taxes for out-of-state orders won’t be charged unless you’ve explicitly set up a tax rate for those locations — Square doesn’t auto-collect sales tax everywhere by default. If you sell through Square Online, some states may require the platform to collect/remit taxes for you, but Square is not a marketplace facilitator — so you must set your own tax rates.
If you want to collect taxes for every state you would need to do this.
1. Go to your Square Dashboard → Items → Sales Taxes.
2. Click Create Tax (or edit an existing one).
3. In Tax Application, choose:
• “Order location” if you want taxes based on where you’re shipping from, OR
• “Buyer location” to tax based on the customer’s shipping address.
4. Add the states (and rates) you’re required to collect in.
• If you only have a nexus in your home state, you legally can’t charge tax outside it.
• If you do have nexus in other states, you must enter each state’s rate.
There is a company called Avalara that will handle it for you for a fee, I would check to see if they are compatible with square.
