How To: Set up a Tax

Create Rate Areas

Go to Administration → Shipping & taxes → Rate areas and create rate areas. You’ll need rate areas if you want to specify different tax rates for customers from different countries and regions.

Configure a Tax

  1. Go to Administration → Shipping & taxes → Taxes.

  2. Add a new tax by clicking the + button in the upper right part of the page, or edit an existing tax by clicking on it’s name.

  3. The tax editing page will open. Specify tax properties there.

    The tax editing page in CS-Cart and Multi-Vendor.

  4. Switch to the Tax rates tab and enter the tax rates.

  5. Click the Save button (or Create if you’re adding a new tax).

    Tax rates

    Hint

    Check Settings → Appearance for 2 settings related to taxes:

    • Display prices with taxes on category/product pages
    • Display prices with taxes on cart/checkout pages

Apply Taxes to Products

Important

If you want to apply several taxes to the base product price, make sure those taxes have the same priority. Otherwise, if the priority of tax A is 1 and the priority of tax B is 2, the tax A will be applied to the base product price, and tax B will be applied to the product price with tax A applied already.

Apply Taxes to All Products

  1. Go to Administration → Shipping & taxes → Taxes.

  2. Click the tax ot taxes that you want to apply to all products. Three sections with with drop-down settings that you can change for the selected taxes will appear.

  3. Click the Actions button and choose Apply selected taxes to all products.

    Apply a tax to all products in CS-Cart or Multi-Vendor.

Apply Taxes to a Specific Product

  1. Go to Products → Products.

  2. Find the product and click on its name.

  3. Find the Taxes property in the Pricing / inventory section.

  4. Tick the checkboxes of the taxes you’d like to apply.

  5. Click Save.

    Hint

    Taxes can also be applied to products via product_import. We have a separate article that describes the formatting of the imported CSV file with products.

Apply Taxes to Shipping Methods

  1. Go to Administration → Shipping & taxes → Shipping methods.

  2. Click on the name of the shipping method.

  3. Find the Taxes property in the Pricing section on the Additional settings tab.

  4. Tick the checkboxes of the taxes you’d like you apply.

  5. Click the Save button.

    Applying a tax to a shipping method in CS-Cart or Multi-Vendor.