Set your studio's tax jurisdiction once — Canada or the US, your province or state — and Linebook records the right tax on every payment and splits it out in your exports. Not tax advice.
Tax is set for the whole studio — everyone here shares one location and one jurisdiction. Settings → Tax is where you set it, and it drives the tax recorded on every payment and the tax lines in your finance exports.
Pick your region
Choose your country and your province or state. Linebook fills in sensible defaults — the right labels (GST, HST, PST, QST, or Sales tax), typical rates, and what's taxed.
Then confirm the rates against your own registration. Combined rates vary by exact location and change over time, so the presets are a starting point you edit — not a filing.
Federal & provincial
Canada: HST provinces (like Ontario) are one combined rate; GST-plus-PST/QST provinces (BC, Quebec, etc.) are split into a federal part and a provincial part, and Linebook records each separately.
US: your state sales tax. Some states tax the tattoo service, some don't — set whether the tax applies to services, to products, or both.
Services vs products
Tattoo work and retail products (aftercare, merch) can be taxed differently — in several places the service is exempt while goods are taxable. Each tax has its own "applies to services" and "applies to products" switch, so both are recorded correctly.
Included or on top
Tax included in my prices: the amount you record already contains the tax, and Linebook backs it out.
Tax added on top: the amount is pre-tax and the tax is added.
Small supplier?
Under your jurisdiction's registration threshold (e.g. Canada's $30k small-supplier rule) and not charging tax yet? Turn tax off — no tax is recorded on payments until you turn it on.
NoteTax collected is money you owe the government, not income — Linebook keeps it out of your revenue totals and labels it as collected. This is data for your accountant, not tax advice.