App Features · The Getting Ahead Guidebook
Sales Tax Tracking: Turn Everyday Purchases into a Tax Deduction
If you live in a no-income-tax state — Washington, Texas, Florida, Nevada, and a handful of others — the IRS lets you deduct the sales tax you paid instead. Most people never bother, because tracking it by hand is miserable. The app does it for you.
It adds up quietly all year
Turn on Sales Tax Tracking, enter your rate, and the app estimates the sales-tax portion of your purchases automatically. All year it’s building the total in the background while you just live your life.
The biggest deductions are the ones you never wrote down. This one writes itself down for you.
When tax time comes
- A year-to-date total: tax paid, purchases, and your effective rate.
- Your big-ticket buys — appliances, car repairs, home improvement — highlighted.
- A ready-to-file summary you can hand straight to your accountant.
- A printable report for your records, summary or detailed.
No spreadsheet, no shoebox of receipts. Just a number that’s been quietly adding up all year, ready when you need it.
Start tracking your sales tax
Every feature here is built into The Getting Ahead Guidebook — the simple, logical way to organize your family’s money. Try the whole thing free for 7 days. No credit card to start.
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