Taxes are calculated automatically within Shopify, but you can override these tax rates for greater control over the taxes you charge. Use overrides if you need to do any of the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For example, you can specify overrides for state tax exemptions in the United States, provincial tax exemptions in Canada, or VAT exemptions in the European Union or the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Overrides apply to online sales and to Shopify POS sales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For information about Canadian tax overrides, refer to Canadian tax override requirements<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n To set up a tax override, create a manual collection for the products that are tax exempt, and then apply the override to that collection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you do not need to charge sales tax, then you can create overrides and set the tax rates to 0%. Always check with a local tax authority to make sure that you are charging your customers the correct tax rates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You can use the Sufio<\/a> app or the Digital Takeout: Easy Invoice<\/a> app to set up your store to follow EU VAT regulations. For example, you can capture and validate business customers’ EU VAT registration numbers to set those customers to be tax exempt, and create invoices that are compliant in the European Union.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you have just a few products that are exempt from tax, then you can prevent any taxes from applying to these products individually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n To apply a tax override, you first need to group the tax-modified products in a specific manual collection<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hidden collections can be used for tax overrides. Any products placed in the collection that you create will become tax exempt everywhere in your store, whether the collection is hidden or not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Only manual collections can be used to set up tax overrides. Automatic collections can’t be used.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You can specify unique tax rates for a collection of products or on shipping charges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The percentage value that you enter is the amount that will be collected<\/strong>. It’s not<\/strong> the amount exempted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you set up calculated shipping rates using Canada Post, their rates will be used even if you create a shipping tax override.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On the Customers<\/strong> page of your Shopify admin, you can set a customer to be fully tax exempt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Tax exempt customers are not charged any tax when they complete a checkout. These customers need to check out using the same email address as the one listed on their customer account.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you set a customer to be tax exempt but you use tax-included pricing, then the customer will still be charged the full listed product price.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Shopify has built-in tax overrides for two specific cases:<\/p>\n\n\n\n The following states have tax exemptions for certain clothing products:<\/p>\n\n\n\n For Shopify to calculate the correct tax rates, your store must have a physical presence in the state, and you need to create a collection<\/a> for the applicable clothing products with a title of tax:clothing<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n After you save the tax:clothing<\/strong> collection, the applicable clothing rule will be applied automatically, and the correct amount of tax will be collected for the products in that collection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Use the tax:clothing<\/strong> collection only for the states of New York, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island. If another clothing exemption applies in your jurisdiction, use other tax override methods or mark your products as nontaxable in the Pricing<\/strong> section of the product page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n British Columbia applies a higher PST rate to vapor products. In addition, GST is compounded on the PST. For Shopify to calculate the correct tax rates, you need to create a collection<\/a> for the applicable vapor products with the title tax:eliquid_vaporizers<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For more information about the PST rate for vapor products, refer to the Government of British Columbia<\/a> website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For the override to apply correctly, you need to set up your tax accounts for Canada<\/a> and British Columbia<\/a> first.<\/p>\n\n\n\n After you save the tax:eliquid_vaporizers<\/strong> collection, the applicable sales taxes are applied automatically, and the correct amount of tax will be collected for the products in that collection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Saskatchewan applies a Vapour Products Tax, or VPT<\/em>, to vapor products. For Shopify to calculate the correct tax rates, you need to create a collection<\/a> for the applicable vapor products with the title tax:eliquid_vaporizers<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For more information about the VPT for vapor products, refer to the Government of Saskatchewan<\/a> website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For the override to apply correctly, you need to set up your tax accounts for Canada<\/a> and Saskatchewan<\/a> first.<\/p>\n\n\n\n After you save the tax:eliquid_vaporizers<\/strong> collection, PST is no longer collected on products in the collection, and it is replaced by VST.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If most or all of your products are exempt from sales tax and you are in a country that has both federal tax and regional taxes, then you can override the defaults to 0% in the Base taxes<\/strong> section.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, for your products that are taxable, you will need to add those products to a collection, and then create a tax override for that collection. 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Set a product to be exempt from sales tax<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Steps:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Create a manual collection for products that need a tax override<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Steps:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Note<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Override the taxes on a collection or on shipping charges<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Note<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Steps:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Set up tax-exempt customers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Note<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Steps:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Built-in tax exemptions<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Clothing tax rules in US states<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Steps:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
tax:clothing<\/code> in lowercase letters.<\/li>British Columbia vapor product tax rules<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Before you begin<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Steps:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
tax:eliquid_vaporizers<\/code> in lowercase letters.<\/li>Saskatchewan vapor product tax rules<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Before you begin<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Steps:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
tax:eliquid_vaporizers<\/code> in lowercase letters.<\/li>Set a 0% tax rate for most of your products<\/h2>\n\n\n\n