Galvix SaaS Sales Tax Checker
How the SaaS Sales Tax Checker works
The checker applies the rules in our state SaaS guides to your answers. Each guide is researched from the state’s own statutes, regulations and official guidance, cites its source, and shows the date it was last checked.
How each state’s answer is reached
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Hosted software
Each state’s answer for SaaS itself: taxable, taxable from January 1, 2027, not taxable, local tax only, or no sales tax. This is the verdict on its state guide.
- 2
Each part you sell
Downloads, API access, hosting, downloadable content and custom software each have their own treatment in each state, taken from the products table on the state guide.
- 3
What it does
Where a state treats information services or data processing differently (New Jersey, Tennessee, West Virginia), your answer to question 2 decides it. “Not sure” shows those states as Depends.
- 4
Who buys it
Where a state taxes business and personal buyers differently (Connecticut, Iowa, Maryland, New Jersey, Ohio), your answer to question 3 sets the verdict or the rate.
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Extra charges
Setup, training and support plans are judged on how you bill them: on their own invoice line or inside the subscription, and whether support includes updates. Outside the states that tax services on their own, they are not taxed where the software you sell isn’t.
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The state’s result
Taxable if any part you sell is taxable; otherwise taxable from 2027 if any part starts then; otherwise Depends if any part depends on details; otherwise not taxable.
What the checker assumes
- You have to collect in the state. Whether you do depends on its nexus threshold.
- Your software is hosted outside Maine and Mississippi, which tax software run on servers inside the state.
- Local taxes that differ from the state (Chicago’s 15%, Denver and Colorado home-rule cities, Alaska’s boroughs) are flagged in the report, not counted in the state’s result.
- Answers are general. A contract can change the result, for example by how charges are split or where users are.
When each state was last checked
General information based on state rules verified on the dates shown. It is not tax advice for your contracts.