For adult subscription sites and clip stores selling direct to US members

Two hundred transactions. You crossed that line in February.

Gazetteer takes your monthly sales by member billing state and shows which states tax streaming, which exempt it, which have no sales tax, and where your sales have crossed the line that obliges you to register — and will not sign a quarterly review while a crossed state that taxes streaming has no registration.

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Opens in this browser with an invented site already in it. No account, no email address, nothing installed.

Gazetteer with its example records in it

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The problem

Fifty states, fifty answers, one subscription.

Some states tax streaming subscriptions, some exempt them, Florida taxes them through a separate communications tax, Chicago adds its own amusement tax, and four states have no sales tax at all. A remote seller owes a state nothing until its sales there cross that state’s line — often $100,000 or 200 transactions — and a subscription site crosses it quietly, one member at a time.

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states and DC tax streaming outright, among them Texas, Pennsylvania, Washington, Illinois and North Carolina.

Commenda, July 2026 →

Chicago’s amusement tax on streaming, on top of Illinois. Florida taxes streaming through its communications services tax instead.

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200

transactions — or $100,000 of sales — is the usual line. A $20 subscription crosses 200 with seventeen members.

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Will not sign a quarter with a crossed state unregistered.

Not a reminder. Sign the review refuses, with each state named, while any state crossed by the quarter’s end that taxes streaming — or has not been checked — has no registration, any crossed state’s row has not been confirmed in a year, or a month of the quarter has no sales typed in. A signed quarter’s months are frozen. There is no override.

How it works

Type the totals, read the map

Type monthly totals by state

Sales and transactions by the state members are billed in. No member, no address.

Read the map

Each state: does it tax streaming, what is its line, have you crossed it on last year’s sales or this year’s so far, are you registered.

Sign the quarter

When every crossed state that taxes streaming has a registration and every row is confirmed. The review is your record that somebody looked.

What it will never do

It maps the obligation. It does not file.

Gazetteer shows where you owe and whether you have registered. Collecting and filing stay with you and your adviser.

No members.Totals by billing state only.

It does not collect tax.Your billing does. Gazetteer says where it should be switched on.

Not every rule.It starts from one published table, dated, and makes you confirm each state you cross.

It never touches a payment.The fee is flat and it is for software.

Pricing

Priced per operator, flat

However many states you sell in.

Operator

$19/month

One site.

Fifty states and DC
Nexus check by month
Quarterly review gate, no override

Most operators

Operator plus

$29/month

Several sites or stores, one company.

Everything in Operator
Registration log
Export for your accountant

Group

$69/month

Several companies under one owner.

Everything in Operator plus
One copy for each company
Priority support

Flat fee, billed monthly. Never a share of sales. Your bank statement says Gazetteer Software. Your licence key is emailed to you within two working days of payment.

Checkout is our own bitcoin server, not a card processor — nobody we had to apply to and nobody who can close the account. The button takes you straight to it. Give your email address there — that is where your key is sent.

Questions

The ones we actually get asked

What does ‘not clear: treated as taxed’ mean?

The table Gazetteer starts from does not clearly say how that state treats streaming. Until you check and change the row, Gazetteer assumes it taxes it.

Which sales count towards the line?

Last calendar year’s, or this year’s so far. Each state’s line can be edited; set the transaction test to zero for a state that has dropped it.

We registered after the quarter ended. Can we still sign it?

Yes. The crossing is judged at the quarter’s end; the registration and the confirmations count as of the day you sign.

Is this tax advice?

No. It is a map that argues with you.

What do I actually get when I pay?

The demo on this page is the whole program, running on invented records. Paying gets you a licence key — one line of text, emailed to the address you give at checkout within two working days. Paste it into the program and from then on it keeps your own records. Until then, nothing you type into it is kept.

The key is checked inside the page, on your own machine. It never calls us, so there is still no account and nothing about your business goes anywhere. If you ever stop paying, your records stay exactly where they are, read-only, and Export still hands you every one of them.

Open the demo at quarter end

Members in thirteen states, registered in nine. The spring quarter was signed. The summer one will not sign: a marketing push in South Carolina crossed 200 transactions in September, and nobody has registered there — and Washington’s row has not been checked in over a year.

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