Sales tax
The tax Amazon charged your buyers, by state, and who pays it to the state.
On nearly every Amazon US order, Amazon is the marketplace facilitator: it works out the sales tax, charges it to your buyer, and pays it to the state for you. The Sales tax page shows how much that was, state by state, and flags any tax Amazon collected that you still have to pay yourself.
What's on the page
- Sales, before tax and Sales tax charged to your buyers in the date range.
- Paid by Amazon: tax on order lines Amazon marks as marketplace facilitator. You don't remit this.
- Yours to remit: tax on lines Amazon marks as not under marketplace facilitator rules. Amazon collected it but doesn't pay it to the state, so you do. It's usually zero.
- By state: orders, sales, tax, the effective rate and who pays it. States with no state sales tax (such as Oregon) show that.
The figures come from the tax Amazon records on each order line, by the ship-to state and the Pacific-time day the order was placed. Cancelled orders are left out. The page keeps this year and last year.
County, city and district detail
Choose a state to see its breakdown by taxing jurisdiction. That detail comes from Amazon's Sales Tax Report, which you turn on at the bottom of the page:
- Choose Turn on import.
- In Seller Central, go to Reports → Tax Document Library → Sales Tax Reports and generate a report for the dates you need. Amazon only lets you create this report yourself.
- Back in MyProfit, choose Check for new reports. Reports also load every week.
Turning the import off deletes everything it brought in.
Do I still need to register or file?
Amazon remitting the tax doesn't always mean you have nothing to do: some states still expect sellers with nexus to register or file. Sales by state shows where your sales pass each state's threshold. MyProfit doesn't give tax advice; check with the state or your accountant.