As a follow up to this: If I go to the “Standard rates” section under the Tax tab in the WooCommerce dashboard, I can see all the Illinois zip codes I’ve tested, the rate that is being applied, and the tax name. All of them come up as “US-IL-COOK COUNTY-CHICAGO : COOK COUNTY Tax” with a rate of 10.25%.
Hey there,
I do see this too. Our automated taxes use data from TaxJar and their demo also says that these are Cook County taxes when I have a shipment originating in Chicago and going to Springfield.
"jurisdictions": {
"city": "CHICAGO : COOK COUNTY",
"country": "US",
"county": "COOK COUNTY",
"state": "IL"
},
Could you use a sample destination address and let us know what you’re expecting to see tax-wise for that address? I often use nearby hotels for shipping/tax calculations.
There’s also a TaxJar demo you’re welcome to use.
https://developers.taxjar.com/demo/
Let us know and we’ll go from there.
Thanks!
Okay, here is one for example: from 1400 S Jefferson St in Chicago (60607), to 501 N Charles St in Belleville, IL (62220).
According to several sources (including TaxJar’s own calculator at https://www.taxjar.com/sales-tax-calculator) this should be 8.1%. This includes 6.25% for IL state, 0.75% for the city of Belleville, and 1.1% for the district.
What is showing in the plugin, and in the TaxJar API demo you linked, is that that same Chicago/Cook country jurisdiction is being applied incorrectly, for a total 10.25% rate.
Belleville is on the complete opposite diagonal end of Illinois from Chicago/Cook County, and there is no way it should be subject to that tax jurisdiction – this is clearly an error in the TaxJar API which, from my hours of spot testing yesterday, seems to be affecting the entire state of Illinois.
As much as downstate Illinois likes to claim that we here in Chicago are imposing our will upon them, I guarantee you that the entire state is not subject to Chicago and Cook County sales tax rates. 🙂
Hey @artsgirl,
Thanks for walking through all of that. I can replicate this on my test site too.
As I was writing up a bug report about this, I pulled up TaxJar’s documentation about Illinois sales tax. It indicated that Illinois is an “origin-based” state.
https://www.taxjar.com/sales-tax/illinois
https://www.taxjar.com/sales-tax/origin-based-and-destination-based-sales-tax
We’re not tax experts so please double-check with someone who knows tax laws for the state of Illinois.
If that’s true, then it would be correct for Cook county taxes to be applied to a customer located on the other end of the state.
Take a look at those documents, ask a CPA or other tax professional and let us know if you have any questions.
Thanks!
