Title: Taxes
Last modified: November 6, 2020

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# Taxes

 *  Resolved [os23](https://wordpress.org/support/users/os23/)
 * (@os23)
 * [5 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/taxes-17/)
 * I have read all the stuff by woocommerce to set tax but iam not getting how to
   set different tax that will work/apply according to product category i.e different
   tax for different product category .

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 *  Plugin Support [Stuart Duff – a11n](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stuartduff/)
 * (@stuartduff)
 * Automattic Happiness Engineer
 * [5 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/taxes-17/#post-13629340)
 * Hi [@os23](https://wordpress.org/support/users/os23/),
 * What you could do is create Tax Class for each category and then apply that Tax
   Class to products which you assign to the category.
 * For example, if you had a product category called Clothing you could create a
   tax class called Clothing Tax or similar. For each product within the Clothing
   category, you would apply the tax class you created for that.
 * You can read more about tax classes in this document below.
 * [https://docs.woocommerce.com/document/setting-up-taxes-in-woocommerce/#section-7](https://docs.woocommerce.com/document/setting-up-taxes-in-woocommerce/#section-7)
 *  Thread Starter [os23](https://wordpress.org/support/users/os23/)
 * (@os23)
 * [5 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/taxes-17/#post-13637111)
 * Assume I want 12% tax named GST on product category “clothing” and I want 18%
   tax named GST on product category “shoes” so how can I or vendor apply tax depending
   on product category ?
 *  Plugin Support [Stuart Duff – a11n](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stuartduff/)
 * (@stuartduff)
 * Automattic Happiness Engineer
 * [5 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/taxes-17/#post-13639660)
 * Hi [@os23](https://wordpress.org/support/users/os23/),
 * As per my previous reply, you could try creating a Tax Class for the categories
   you wish to apply tax rates to and assign those to products within those categories.
 *  Thread Starter [os23](https://wordpress.org/support/users/os23/)
 * (@os23)
 * [5 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/taxes-17/#post-13667414)
 * So on which rates should I change

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 * Last activity: [5 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/taxes-17/#post-13667414)
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