You need to have a sales tax permit to get a resale certificate. You can learn how to register for a sales tax permit in every state here.
If you are registered for a sales tax permit, you can fill out and submit your resale certificate under the Billing section of your Printful Dashboard. Go to the Resale certificate section, and, in the top right corner, click Add certificate.
There you can choose categories of products you wish to become exempt from. We won’t charge sales tax on products in the categories you chose but will continue to charge you sales tax on products in categories you don’t choose.
Once you fill in all the required fields and select a state, click the gray Fill out and print form button. A window with the respective state’s certificate form will open.
There are two kinds of resale certificate forms that can be used for most states, but some states have their own state-specific form. All of these forms need to be filled out electronically, and only the signature can be handwritten.
- MTC Form (Uniform Sales & Use Tax Resale Certificate Multijurisdiction Form)
This form can be used for all states that are mentioned on the form:
- Alabama (AL)
- Arkansas (AR)
- Arizona (AZ)
- California (CA)
- Colorado (CO)
- Connecticut (CT)
- Florida (FL)
- Georgia (GA)
- Hawaii (HI)
- Idaho (ID)
- Illinois (IL)
- Iowa (IA)
- Kansas (KS)
- Kentucky (KY)
- Maine (ME)
- Maryland (MD)
- Michigan (MI)
- Minnesota (MN)
- Missouri (MO)
- Nebraska (NE)
- Nevada (NV)
- New Jersey (NJ)
- New Mexico (NM)
- North Carolina (NC)
- North Dakota (ND)
- Ohio (OH)
- Oklahoma (OK)
- Pennsylvania (PA)
- Rhode Island (RI)
- South Carolina (SC)
- South Dakota (SD)
- Tennessee (TN)
- Texas (TX)
- Utah (UT)
- Vermont (VT)
- Washington (WA)
- Wisconsin (WI)
How to fill out the MTC form:
- Mention “Printful, Inc.” under Issued to Seller and use our address: 11025 Westlake Dr, Charlotte, North Carolina 28273.
- Under the Name of Firm (Buyer), enter your legal name (or company name) and your legal address. The name you enter here has to be the same as what you added in your Printful Dashboard under the Legal info section.
- Then choose who you are engaged or registered as. Most likely, you’re a “Retailer”, but you can also choose “Wholesaler” or “Seller” if you’re registered as such. If you check any of these options, we’ll accept your certificate. You can also choose “Other”, but in this case, we’ll only be able to accept your certificate if you specify that you’re an ecommerce or online shop.
- Provide a description of your business and a general description of your tangible property (e.g., custom apparel and non-apparel).
- Add your seller permit number in the green table with the list of states. If you’re registered in multiple states, you don’t need to fill out a separate form for each of them. Instead, add your seller permit numbers for all states to the table. Then, when you go to your Printful Dashboard, you’ll need to upload the same filled-out certificate file for each state separately.
- At the bottom of the form, add your handwritten or digital signature and enter the date. We won’t accept certificates without the signature and/or date.
This form can be used for the following states:
- Arkansas (AR)
- Georgia (GA)
- Iowa (IA)
- Indiana (IN)
- Kansas (KS)
- Kentucky (KY)
- Michigan (MI)
- Minnesota (MN)
- North Carolina (NC)
- North Dakota (ND)
- Nebraska (NE)
- New Jersey (NJ)
- Ohio (OH)
- Oklahoma (OK)
- Rhode Island (RI)
- South Dakota (SD)
- Tennessee (TN)
- Utah (UT)
- Vermont (VT)
- Washington (WA)
- Wisconsin (WI)
- West Virginia (WV)
- Wyoming (WY)
How to fill out the SSUTA form:
- In the 1st section, select which state you’re claiming the exemption for.
- In the 3rd section, use your legal information to fill out the following fields: “name of purchaser”(your company’s legal name), “business address”(your legal address), and enter your tax ID for the respective state under “purchaser’s tax ID number”. The legal name you enter here has to be the same as what you added in your Printful Dashboard under the Legal info section.
- As the name of the seller, enter “Printful, Inc.” and provide Printful’s address: 11025 Westlake Dr, Charlotte, North Carolina 28273.
- In the 4th section, select what best describes your business.
- In the 5th section, choose Resale as a reason for tax exemption. You always have to select Resale, or we won’t be able to approve your resale certificate.
- In the last section, enter your handwritten or electronic signature. We won’t accept certificates without the signature and/or date.
Note: Some states require you to present your seller's permit with your resale certificate so we can verify it. In these cases, you will need to scan and submit both documents. This affects submissions for:
- Alabama
- Connecticut
- District of Columbia
- Indiana
- Iowa
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Massachusetts
- Michigan
- Minnesota
- Missouri
- Nebraska
- New Jersey
- New Mexico
- Oklahoma
- Pennsylvania
- Rhode Island
- South Carolina
- South Dakota
- Tennessee
- Utah
- Virginia
- Vermont
- West Virginia
- Wisconsin
- Wyoming
If you have a different tax-exemption certificate, you can email us at taxexemptions@printful.com. You can find information about tax-exemption certificates here.
Before you submit your resale certificate, please check:
- If you added your legal information to the Printful Dashboard. To do so, go to Dashboard > Billing > Legal info. We can’t approve your resale certificate until you’ve added your legal information.
- If your seller permit is active and valid. We’ll check your seller permit ID on verification websites, and if no confirmation of verification is available, we’ll ask you to submit a copy of your seller permit.
Once you submit your resale certificate, we’ll review it, which takes about 2 business days. Once it’s reviewed, we’ll send an email confirmation stating if it has been approved or rejected. If it’s rejected, we’ll let you know why, so that you could fix and resubmit it.
Please note that your resale certificate needs to be submitted to Printful and approved before an order is placed. Only then we won’t charge you sales tax. We don’t refund sales tax for orders that have been placed before the resale certificate was submitted.
