HOW TO

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Sales percentage:
Take the retail price of the item, or items, you are about to purchase and multiply it by one and the sales tax percentage. For instance, if an item costs 49.99 and your local sales tax was 6.25%, you would multiply 49.99 by 1.0625. Adding the one to the beginning of the percentage adds the sales tax onto the price automatically.