C Program to compute the sales tax

C Program to find the sales tax

This c program is used to compute the sales tax based on user inputs cost and tax rate or percentage.

Formula to find sales tax

Sales tax = price of item × tax rate

C Program to calculate the sales tax

#include<stdio.h>                                                               
                                                                                
void main()                                                                     
{                                                                               
  double cost, tax_rate, sales_tax;                                             
  printf("Enter cost amount: ");                                                
  scanf("%lf", &cost);                                                          
  printf("Enter tax rate: ");                                                   
  scanf("%lf", &tax_rate);                                                      
                                                                                
  sales_tax =  cost*(tax_rate/100);;                                            
  printf("Sales tax: %.2lf\n", sales_tax);                                      
} 

Output:

$ cc sales-tax.c 
$ ./a.out 
Enter cost amount: 5000
Enter tax rate: 12
Sales tax: 600.00