Configuring taxes

In Kentico, tax classes allow you to configure taxes that customers pay when they purchase goods in your on-line store. You can specify different tax classes with different rates for each country or state, and then apply the taxes to particular products, product options, and shipping options.

To assign tax classes to items in your store:

It is also possible to connect Kentico to external tax calculation services (for example Avalara). To achieve that, you can customize the Kentico E-commerce Solution or you can check the Kentico Marketplace for third party integration features.

To configure tax classes, you need to:

1. Configure basic tax settings
2. Create a new tax class
3. Assign a percentage value to the tax class
4. Assign the tax class to your products

Configuring tax settings

The e-commerce settings allow you to configure several options related to taxes:

1. Open the Store configuration application (if you want to configure the settings for the current site) or the Multistore configuration application (if you want to configure the settings globally).

   If you are not sure what to choose, see Choosing site or global e-commerce configuration. If you are not sure about specifics of configuring in these applications, see Configuring e-commerce settings for a specific site or globally.

2. Navigate to the Taxes category.

3. Configure the available settings:

   Setting	Description
   Default country	Specifies the default country (typically, select your country or the country where you sell the most). The system applies all taxes based on their values as set for the default country, unless the customer specifies a different country (or state) during the checkout process.
   Apply taxes based on	Specifies whether the system applies taxes based on the Billing address or the Shipping address. Note: For orders without shipping information, taxes are applied based on the billing address regardless of this setting.
   Prices include tax	Determines how the system handles taxes for the prices of products, product options and variants, shipping costs, etc. - If disabled, store managers enter prices without tax. The system calculates and adds the tax to the price total during the checkout process.- if enabled, store managers enter prices with tax already included. The system does not change prices when calculating taxes, only shows the tax portion of the price.In both cases, prices appear in product catalogs on the live site based on the entered price value (with or without taxes). Tax values can be displayed using the appropriate e\-commerce [transformation methods](/k11/developing-websites/loading-and-displaying-data-on-websites/writing-transformations/reference-transformation-methods){.internal-link }. Notes: - Changing the setting value does not automatically recalculate existing product prices and orders.- If your instance runs multiple stores (e\-commerce sites), the global value of this setting ***must be the same*** as the site value for all sites that offer both [site and global products](/k11/e-commerce-features/configuring-your-store/choosing-site-or-global-e-commerce-configuration){.internal-link }. Other scenarios are not supported, for example having a single store display prices with tax for site\-specific products and without tax for global products.

4. Click Save.

The system applies taxes based on the configured settings.

Creating and modifying new tax classes

To create or modify a new tax class:

1. Open the Store configuration application to create or edit tax classes on the current site, open the Multistore configuration application to create or edit global tax classes.

   If you are not sure what to choose, see Choosing site or global e-commerce configuration. If you are not sure about specifics of configuring in these applications, see Configuring e-commerce settings for a specific site or globally.

2. Switch to the Tax classes tab.

3. To create a new tax class, click New tax class. To edit an existing tax class, click Edit () next to the respective tax class item.

4. Enter the following properties:

   Display name	The name of the tax class that is also displayed to customers on the live site.
   Code name	The unique identifier of the tax class object used by developers in the code. Unless there is a reason to set a particular value, you can leave the default (automatic) option, and the system generates an appropriate code name automatically.
   Zero tax if tax ID is supplied	If selected, the tax class will be charged as 0 % to customer organizations which enter their tax ID during the checkout process.

5. Click Save.

The system saves the tax classes. You can now assign the tax class to any product or shipping option.

Assigning values to tax classes

You can assign values to either countries or states. The tax is then applied based on the billing or shipping address.

To assign a value to a tax class:

1. Open the Store configuration application (if you want to add a value to a site tax class) or open the Multistore configuration application (to add a value to a global tax class).

   If you are not sure what to choose, see Choosing site or global e-commerce configuration. If you are not sure about specifics of configuring in these applications, see Configuring e-commerce settings for a specific site or globally.

2. Switch to the Tax classes tab.

3. Edit () an existing tax class.

4. Switch to the Countries tab to enter a value to a country, or switch to the States tab to enter a value to a state.

5. Type the value to the Amount column next to the respective country or state item.

6. Click Save.

The system saves the taxes. The entered value of the tax class is now calculated for products or shipping options to which the tax class is assigned.

Assigning tax classes to products

To assign a tax class to already existing products:

1. Open the Products application.
2. Select a product in the tree.
3. On the General tab, select the appropriate Tax class for the product.
4. Click Save.

The system now calculates tax for the given product according to the assigned tax class.