Product Prices Inclusive Of Tax
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Hello dear,
I have an issue. I’m using TaxJar Calculations in my store. TaxJar does not allow me to change the settings of how I want to display sales tax amount in my store, like prices inclusive/exclusive of tax in the WooCommerce Tax settings tab. I can’t change anything in Tax tab, every time I save after changes it keeps getting to default setup.
Let’s say I have a product for $70, I want to just charge $70 with tax being included in the product price, I only have nexus in CA so I don’t mind if sales tax will be included in the product price, Is there any way to set this up?
I just want to have control over this three option in Tax settings tab in WooCommerce, when I have enabled TaxJar Calculations:
@ Prices entered with tax
@ Display prices in the shop
@ Display prices during cart and checkoutI don’t want to show my customers sales tax separately from the product price, I just want it to be part of the product.
I can do the CSS to remove it from my cart and checkout, but I still need TaxJar to calculate and download the record in my TaxJar account for sales tax report.
I want to TaxJar know that when I’m selling in CA for $70 the sales tax is also part of the price so I don’t want it to be shown in cart or checkout. I just want TaxJar calculate and deduct the sales tax from my product price and have it as a record in my Taxjar account. I don’t want to add sales tax to my $70 price. $70 includes product price, shipping, and tax, all together.
I tried real hard to fix this but I couldn’t make it, please help me with this matter I really need your support.
I have attached an image for sample demonstration.
With Gratitude.
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Hi @tatifox,
This change is technically complex because of how the TaxJar plugin works and more importantly how sales tax is collected in the United States. We calculate sales tax dynamically based on the customer’s address, products in the cart, tax classes assigned to those products, discounts applied after adding a coupon, etc. Once the sales tax is returned, we create or update a tax rate in WooCommerce. This is done to ensure we’re using the latest data available in our system.
In order to display prices inclusive of tax, these tax rates would already need to be added to the WooCommerce rate table and you’d also need to determine the customer’s shipping location in advance. This can be done to some extent with geolocation, but it’s not accurate enough for US states because you’re calculating sales tax at the jurisdiction level by city and zip code. If you include tax in the price for US states, it’s likely to change once the customer enters their address details. Additionally, our plugin only populates the WooCommerce rate table with rates returned by our API at checkout. We don’t import rates for every city and zip code combination in advance before the customer hits the cart / checkout.
I understand your point about conversion with additional fees at checkout, but this practice isn’t common for US merchants. See this Q&A for more information. Prices inclusive of tax are better purposed for EU tax calculations where you have a standard VAT rate at the country level and it’s a requirement to include taxes in the price. For Europe, you would manually add wildcard VAT rates by country in WooCommerce.
TaxJar also powers sales tax calculations for WooCommerce Services so I’m not sure if that integration will accommodate your needs at this time. I recommend displaying the price exclusive of tax for US states. Otherwise you’ll need to manually add a wildcard tax rate for CA state (not necessarily accurate) or explore other solutions.
Thank you!
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