This screen displays all Tax Zones.
Tax Zones are simply geographical physical address areas that your organization must collect tax from, for all or some of your Products.
Taxes are based on either the location of the Shipping Addresses of each Recipient,
or the Billing Address of each Customer during the checkout process.
Taxes are calculated as a percentage of the Order Subtotal. Any shipping fees are
excluded from tax calculations.
TIP: If some of your Customers are Tax-Exempt, you can prompt them during the checkout
process and the Tax will not be calculated, displayed, or collected for that
Order. Your Site Manager can enable this feature in the Site Settings.
TIP: If none of your Customers are taxable, or none of your Products are taxable, then
you can completely disable tax from all Commerce Pages and Orders. Your Site Manager
can enable this feature in the Site Settings.
IMPORTANT: Tax Zones must not overlay each other.
To create a Tax Zone, click "Create Tax Zone".
Both the Billing and/or the Shipping Addresses are considered in the calculation of
tax for each Order. Only "taxable" Products will be included in any tax
calculations.
For each taxable Product in the Cart, taxes will be accumulated as follows:
Therefore, the total Order Tax = Destination Tax + Purchaser Tax