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In Veterans First Watch's own words, from their site. TaxAndTips does not verify what a sponsor sells.

What sponsorship pays for

Veterans First Watch helps cover the cost of importing and checking tax rates from 20,189 taxing jurisdictions, so the calculator stays free to use. It buys no influence over a rate, which comes from the taxing authority's own publication and nowhere else.

Most of those jurisdictions are local — cities, counties, transit authorities and special districts — which is why what you pay at the till follows the street you are standing on. More on where that money goes.