Currently the e4j Channelmanager creates a setting “VAT\/taxes” at Airbnb every time I upload rates to airbnb. If I delete this setting at airbnb, it is recreated the next time I upload rates.
Guests expect VAT to be included in prices, separate VAT makes no sense. I don’t want to separate VAT at airbnb.
In vik booking, I have configured taxes to create correct invoices, but I don’t want to export them. Since we have different taxes for services (e.g. cleaning) and renting, a correct tax export to airbnb is not even possible.
I think the airbnb channel manager should at least have an option “(don’t) export VAT” in the rate upload.
Since your first-level support (AI?) just delivers generic answers and insists this is an Airbnb setting problem, I asked Airbnb and got this answer:
“I have just contacted our technical team, and they have confirmed that this entire pricing and tax structure is controlled exclusively through the API data provided by your channel manager. Since your connection is managed externally through e4j, Airbnb Support on our end has absolutely no access to modify your software configurations, pricing arrays, or synchronization settings. Everything you are seeing\u2014including the fact that the VAT parameter is being transmitted as a separate line item and that the tourist taxes have been removed\u2014is entirely determined by the data that e4j sends to us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To optimize this and achieve the gross pricing structure you require for the EU\/DACH region, you will need to contact your channel manager\u2019s support team directly. You should instruct them to adjust the API mapping so that VAT is no longer sent as a separate tax array object, but instead your flat, all-inclusive gross price is transmitted. We want to ensure that your pricing is displayed exactly as your guests expect, but the correction must be made either in your e4j dashboard or by e4j\u2019s developer support team.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-19013292","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/19013292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/19013292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19013357,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/19013292\/revisions\/19013357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19013292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}