the Sales Tax Clearinghouse

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STC provides merchants with the tools to navigate the complicated landscape of calculating sales and use taxes in over 7,000 states, counties, and cities.

Tax Rate Calculation—STC offers two forms of sales tax calculations:

  • Manual—Subscribers may use either our online calculator or our desktop calculator to calculate sales tax rates and amounts.  Each subscription level is good for up to one year and for up to the number of calculations subscribed, after which time or number of calculations you will be asked to select a new subscription level going forward.  There is no setup fee for the Manual subscriptions--simply select the desired subscription level below after signing up on our web site!
  • $ 30 per year for up to250 calculations
    $ 45 per year for up to450 calculations
    $ 70 per year for up to800 calculations
    $105 per year for up to1,400 calculations
    $160 per year for up to2,500 calculations
    $240 per year for up to4,500 calculations
    $360 per year for up to8,100 calculations
    $540 per year for up to15,000 calculations
    $810 per year for up to27,000 calculations
  • Automated—Merchants wanting to perform automated or programmatic calculations will need to integrate our TaxCalc software module that will connect their business system directly to our servers to calculate rates.  The license to use this software module costs $1,250 and also requires an annual subscription, which starts at $240 per year for up to for up to 6,000 calculations, with expanded subscription levels as follows:
  •  $ 240 per year for up to4,500 calculations
     $ 360 per year for up to8,100 calculations
     $ 540 per year for up to15,000 calculations
     $ 810 per year for up to27,000 calculations
    $1,220 per year for up to50,000 calculations
    $1,830 per year for up to90,000 calculations
In either case, the tax rates are calculated in real-time with an SSL connection to our high-speed, secure servers so the results are always 100% current and accurate.

Sales Tax Data—STC offers raw sales tax data by ZIP code with either quarterly updates for $850 per year for up to or monthly updates for $1,270 per year.  The data format is a simple, fixed-length text file containing ZIP code, state, county, city names, and state, county, city sales and use tax rates. (see data file format, the license agreement, and a sample file)  After subscribing, you will receive periodic notices to the email address registered with your account which will include the current password to unlock the compressed ZIP file on our FTP site.

The first step is to signup!

Have questions?  Check out our list of Frequently Asked Questions or submit your question.