# Taxability of handling charges

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# Taxability of handling charges

Learn how handling charges are taxed based on how they are presented on transaction documents.

Depending on how you show the handling charge on your document, it may be included with your freight/shipping line item, or it can be a line itself on the transaction.

-   In the case where your handling charge is combined with freight/shipping, you don’t need a separate line — there’s a tax code that covers this scenario: `FR030000`.

-   When your handling charge is separately stated from the freight/shipping charge, you just need to treat the handling charge as another line. AvaTax has a tax code that covers this as well: `OH010000`.

Refer to the [Avalara Tax Codes Search](https://taxcode.avatax.avalara.com/tree?tree=freight-and-freight-related-charges&tab=interactive) for more information about specific freight and handling tax codes.