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How do I apply tax to a package or item?
How do I apply tax to a package or item?
How to apply tax to your packages and items
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Written by Elli Neeld
Updated over a week ago

You can apply tax to your packages and items with just a few clicks!

PLEASE NOTE: In HoneyBook, tax is applied to specific goods and services. If you’re seeing the tax amount unintentionally showing $0, go through your file and check off tax for the appropriate packages/items by following the steps below.


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To apply tax to a package or item:

1. First, locate the package or item you’d like to apply tax to. You can do so in a package template, or in any file that contains services.

  • HoneyBook Tip: We recommend setting tax on a template level–that way, whenever you use the template, tax will already be applied to the package or item. You can always remove tax on a file-by-file basis.

2. Under the Tax column, check off the tax box to apply tax.

The view will be a bit different depending on where you’re working, but here’s the experience of applying tax in a package template:

Here’s the experience of applying tax to a package in an invoice:

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