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title: "Expenses tags"
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# Expenses tags

Tags are a flexible way to classify users and expense categories according to your organisation's structure. You define the tag type (such as department, location, legal entity, or **cost centre**) and then create values within it to represent the specific groups or codes your business uses.

### **How tags work**

Each tag has one or more values. For example, a tag named "Department" might have values such as "Finance", "Sales", and "Engineering". Once a tag and its values are set up, you assign them to users and categories. When a user raises an expense claim, the relevant tag values are automatically applied, giving Finance a consistent set of data to work with across all claims.

****Video**: What is a tag?**

[Embedded content](https://app.trupeer.ai/embed/KJcgkku0j)

These videos were recorded in Capture Expense. Some screens and labels may look slightly different in Expenses, but the steps remain the same.

### Access tags

As an administrator, go to **Setup** > **Tags**.

The number in the **records** column indicates how many values each tag has.

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**See also**: [Assigning tags to user accounts](/docs/assigning-tags-to-user-accounts) and [assigning tags to categories](/docs/assigning-tags-to-categories).