tax

tax is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from cbrock84/headcount. It costs 75 tokens per session (711 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to identifying the tax obligations created by where a business sells, where people work, what it sells, and where inventory is stored. It explains nexus, the connection that gives a jurisdiction the right to tax a business.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review expansion into new states or countries, hiring plans, sales tax, tax filings, and tax audits.
Why use it?
It helps prevent discovering registrations, payroll, sales-tax, or filing duties years late, along with penalties and interest.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the finance plugin — 13 skills shipped together

About the project

headcount is an organization of independently installable Claude Code plugins, each grouping skills for a department such as finance, security, or demand generation. Claude Code users install the departments they need and invoke their skills for specialized work; the catalogue entries are skills and related agent tooling from that organization.

cbrock84/headcount · 1,247 stars · on GitHub

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cbrock84/headcount/tax
Any agent
npx skills add cbrock84/headcount --skill tax
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cbrock84/headcount

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install finance, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 13 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 75 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 711 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00075 $0.00711
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.00356
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00142
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00071

Measured yesterday against content hash 735000042558, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tax scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured yesterday.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

plugins/finance/skills/tax/SKILL.md · 64 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 64 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Tax

Tax obligations are created by facts — where you sell, where people work, what you sell — not by decisions anyone consciously makes. The characteristic failure is discovering an obligation years after it began, with penalties and interest attached.

This structures the question and tells you what to ask. Tax is technical, jurisdiction-specific, and changes frequently. Positions on anything material belong with a qualified tax adviser or CPA, not a checklist.

Nexus: the thing that creates obligations quietly

Nexus is the connection that gives a jurisdiction the right to tax you. It is established by activities most companies do not think of as tax events:

  • An employee working somewhere. One remote hire in a new state commonly creates payroll registration, income tax withholding, and often corporate income tax nexus.
  • Economic activity without physical presence. Since Wayfair, US states set sales-tax nexus on revenue or transaction thresholds — a few hundred thousand dollars, or a couple of hundred transactions, with the numbers differing by state.
  • Inventory held somewhere, including in a third-party fulfillment warehouse you never visit.
  • Contractors, or attending trade shows, in some jurisdictions.

Review nexus whenever you hire in a new location, cross a revenue threshold, or change how you distribute. Registering late costs more than registering early, and voluntary disclosure programs exist precisely because this is so common.

Sales tax is about what you sell, not what you charge

Taxability of software and services varies enormously by state: SaaS is taxable in some, exempt in others, and treated differently again if delivered with implementation services. The classification of your own product is a determination worth getting in writing and revisiting when packaging changes — see revenue:pricing-and-packaging, because bundling can change the answer.

Exemption certificates for tax-exempt customers must be collected and kept current. In an audit, missing certificates mean you owe the tax you did not collect.

Read the full file on GitHub · 64 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. yesterday First seen · 64 lines · 75 tokens per session scan A 735000042558

Subscribe to this mod's changes

tax is a skill published in the GitHub repository cbrock84/headcount (1,247 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 75 tokens to every session and 711 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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