It depends on what type of sales tax you are asking about
Self-employment sales tax on items sold by your business -
The sales tax that you collect on your items sold
and remitted to the state's Department of Revenue is not reported as an expense
related to your business. Also, you will need to make sure that your
gross sales total does not include the state sales taxes collected for
remittance.
So when reporting
your business income and expenses, reduce the gross sales total by the any
amount of included state sales tax and do not include these remitted state
sales taxes as a business expense.
Please refer to this
IRS link for more information about Business
Expenses
Self-employment sales tax on items purchased by your business -
You will include the sales tax you pay to purchase an item for your business as part of the cost basis on the item purchased.
Personal sales tax deduction -
You will only be
able to claim this sales tax deduction if you itemize and you are not claiming
a state income tax deduction (You are only allowed to claim either a state
sales tax deduction or a state income tax deduction but not both.)
Please note that you
will only be able to take this deduction if you itemize on your return. The
TurboTax program will give you the greater of the standard deduction or the
itemized deduction based on your particular situation:
To enter this
transaction in TurboTax, log into your tax return (for TurboTax Online sign-in,
click Here and click on "Take
me to my return") type "Sales Tax Deduction" in the search bar
then select "jump to Sales Tax Deduction". TurboTax will guide you in
entering this information.
