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Charge tax on your ticket sales (limited availability)
Is your event in the UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia or New Zealand and pricing your tickets in the local currency? Here's how you can easily charge tax on each ticket sale!
Note: At this time, only events located in the UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia or New Zealand and priced in the local currency have access to our dedicated tax tool. If your event doesn't meet these requirements, click here to learn how to configure your tickets to include tax. (And to learn more about our local UK, IE, CA, AU or NZ sites, click here.)
We plan to gradually widen our dedicated tax support, however--keep an eye on our blog for announcements as we expand our tax support!
To get started, first sign up or log in to Eventbrite and create an event.
If you’d like to edit an already-created event, click My Events at the top of the screen and then click on Edit to the right of your event’s name.

Note: If you've already sold a ticket for your event, you will be unable to start charging tax for the event. If you've sold a ticket and want to charge tax, you can copy your existing event page and then enable tax support for the new event page.
On your event’s Edit page, in Step 2: Add Ticket Information, create a ticket priced in your local currency, if you haven’t already. (We'll use a ticket priced in GBP for an event on our UK [.co.uk] site for our example.)
Next click + Add VAT.

In the Tax Options window, select Yes to show all fields and options to fill out.
First complete the three required fields:
- The name of the tax, as it will appear on the order confirmation email and PDF ticket that your attendees will receive after ordering. See below for how this will display. (We'll use "VAT" for our example.)
- The percentage tax that you would like to charge.
- Your tax registration ID, omitting any letters or spaces.
Then choose the ticket type(s) to which you want to apply this tax.
Last, choose whether to include the tax in the ticket price, then click Save.

Note: Tax is charged on the total price the attendee will pay at checkout, inclusive of fees. By default, tax is not included in the ticket price and is added on top of the ticket price, though you can choose to include it in the ticket price instead.
Back on the Edit page, make sure to save your changes. To take a look at how your event page will display, click View or Preview in the upper left.
Here’s how your Ticket Information box on your event page will look if you do not include tax in the ticket price:

And here’s how your Ticket Information box on your event page will look if you include tax in the ticket price:

Note: In both of the examples above, the fees are added on top of the ticket price. (Click here to learn more about how to include the fees in the ticket price.)
Here’s a look at the order confirmation email and PDF ticket that your attendees will receive after ordering. Both include a reference to the tax.

Here's the PDF ticket:

Note: If you’d like your tax to show as a separate line item in the order confirmation email and the PDF ticket—as seen here—you’ll need to leave the Include it in the ticket price? option unchecked when setting up the tax, as described in step 3 above.
Go here to learn how to edit the order confirmation email and PDF ticket!
Have more questions? Contact us!
Charge tax on your ticket sales (limited availability)
Is your event in the UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia or New Zealand and pricing your tickets in the local currency? Here's how you can easily charge tax on each ticket sale!
Note: At this time, only events located in the UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia or New Zealand and priced in the local currency have access to our dedicated tax tool. If your event doesn't meet these requirements, click here to learn how to configure your tickets to include tax. (And to learn more about our local UK, IE, CA, AU or NZ sites, click here.)
We plan to gradually widen our dedicated tax support, however--keep an eye on our blog for announcements as we expand our tax support!
To get started, first sign up or log in to Eventbrite and create an event.
If you’d like to edit an already-created event, click My Events at the top of the screen and then click on Edit to the right of your event’s name.

Note: If you've already sold a ticket for your event, you will be unable to start charging tax for the event. If you've sold a ticket and want to charge tax, you can copy your existing event page and then enable tax support for the new event page.
On your event’s Event Details page, in Step 2: Create Tickets, create a ticket priced in your local currency, if you haven’t already. (We'll use a ticket priced in GBP for an event on our UK [.co.uk] site for our example.)
Next click VAT on the right.

In the Tax Options window, select Yes to show all fields and options to fill out.
First complete the three required fields:
- The name of the tax, as it will appear on the order confirmation email and PDF ticket that your attendees will receive after ordering. See below for how this will display. (We'll use "VAT" for our example.)
- The percentage tax that you would like to charge.
- Your tax registration ID, omitting any letters or spaces.
Then choose the ticket type(s) to which you want to apply this tax.
Last, choose whether to include the tax in the ticket price, then click Save.

Note: Tax is charged on the total price the attendee will pay at checkout, inclusive of fees. By default, tax is not included in the ticket price and is added on top of the ticket price, though you can choose to include it in the ticket price instead.
Back on the Event Details page, make sure to save your changes. To take a look at how your event page will display, click Preview & Appearance in the upper left.
Here’s how your Ticket Information box on your event page will look if you do not include tax in the ticket price:

And here’s how your Ticket Information box on your event page will look if you include tax in the ticket price:

Note: In both of the examples above, the fees are added on top of the ticket price. (Click here to learn more about how to include the fees in the ticket price.)
Here’s a look at the order confirmation email and PDF ticket that your attendees will receive after ordering. Both include a reference to the tax.

Here's the PDF ticket:

Note: If you’d like your tax to show as a separate line item in the order confirmation email and the PDF ticket—as seen here—you’ll need to leave the Include it in the ticket price? option unchecked when setting up the tax, as described in step 3 above.
Go here to learn how to edit the order confirmation email and PDF ticket!
Have more questions? Contact us!

