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title: How to add taxes
description: You can add taxes and tax types in the master data of the finance module in ChurchTools and thus enter your transactions with the corresponding tax. To do this, first add all the required tax types and then the corresponding…
url: "https://staging.churchtools.academy/en/help/churchtools-modules/master-data-finance/19-how-to-add-taxes/"
updated: "2026-07-06"
category: Finances / Master data
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# How to add taxes

You can add taxes and tax types in the master data of the finance module in ChurchTools and thus enter your transactions with the corresponding tax.

To do this, first add all the required tax types and then the corresponding taxes.

## 1. Add tax type

To add a new tax type, navigate to the ***Master data*** (2) in the ***Finance module*** (1) and select ***Tax types*** (3).

By default, the tax types ***Sales tax*** and ***Input tax*** are already added here.

![](https://staging.churchtools.academy/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/image-389.png)

If you need more tax types, you can create them by clicking on ***Add*** (4).

![](https://staging.churchtools.academy/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/image-391.png)

You ***name*** (1) your new tax type and specify where it should be ***sorted*** (2) before you ***add*** (3) it.

## 2. Add taxes

When you have added all the tax types you need, navigate to ***Taxes*** (3) in the ***Master Data*** (2).

Here you will also find taxes that have already been added by default.

![](https://staging.churchtools.academy/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/image-390.png)

With a click on ***Add*** (4) you can create further taxes.

![](https://staging.churchtools.academy/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/image-392.png)

You ***name*** (1) the tax and select to which ***tax type*** (2) it belongs. Then you enter the ***tax rate*** (3) in % and select the ***account*** (4) to which this tax is to be allocated.

With a click on ***Add*** (5) you have created a new tax, which you can use when entering a transaction.

How to enter a tax transaction is explained on our page about the [expert view](https://staging.churchtools.academy/en/help/churchtools-modules/transactions/19-how-to-enter-transactions-using-expert-view/#7-toc-title) of the booking mask.

#### Read more

- [How to add cost centers](https://staging.churchtools.academy/en/help/churchtools-modules/master-data-finance/19-how-to-add-cost-centers/)
- [How to add budgets](https://staging.churchtools.academy/en/help/churchtools-modules/budgets-reports-and-purposes/how-to-add-budgets/)
- [How to enter transactions using the expert view](https://staging.churchtools.academy/en/help/churchtools-modules/transactions/19-how-to-enter-transactions-using-expert-view/)