Tax Overrides and Where Tax Appears in Reports

This article covers reading tax on invoices and receipts, correcting the tax on a specific invoice by hand, and where tax totals appear in reporting.

Reading the tax line

On invoices and bidder receipts, a taxed line shows the jurisdiction and rate that was applied, taken from a snapshot saved with the purchase:

A state rate shows as, for example, CO 7.250%.
A country-default rate shows the country’s short name.
A rate that came from the item’s own fallback rate shows the bare rate.

A single receipt-level “Tax (CO 7.250%)” caption appears only when every taxed item on the receipt shares the same jurisdiction and rate and the auction has no buyer’s premium. On auctions with a buyer’s premium, the receipt’s “Tax” total also includes the premium, so it’s shown as a plain “Tax” with the per-line labels carrying the rate detail.

“Tax needs review” flags

If a manager took payment without a bidder address (see Why Bidders Are Asked for an Address at Checkout), that invoice line records $0.00 tax and gets a small warning indicator. The invoices list has a “Tax needs review” filter so you can find these and correct them.

Override the tax on an invoice

To set the tax on a specific purchase by hand:

Open the invoice and choose Edit Payment Tax on the line.
Enter the correct tax amount and save.

What happens:

The amount you enter is saved and the receipt totals are recalculated immediately.
The line is marked as manually set, which protects it from being recalculated later. Regenerating the receipt or other changes will not overwrite your override.

Because a manual override is locked in, only use it when you specifically intend to fix that one invoice.

Where tax appears in reports

Tax totals flow into the auction’s tax/premiums reporting. For tax-table auctions the report uses the same rate logic as checkout, so the numbers match the invoices — including for winners who haven’t checked out yet. Values already applied to purchases are read from their saved snapshots, so historical figures stay accurate even if you later edit the table’s rates.