Defining sales tax codes

A sales tax is applied to the total cost of your order. A sales tax code is a name for a grouping of sales taxes that is applied to the same products. For example, all sales taxes applicable to groceries could be grouped under a single tax code called groceries. Then, you could assign the groceries tax code to each grocery product.

Procedure

1. Open Management Center tools.
2. From the hamburger menu, click Tax > Tax Codes. The Tax Code page opens for the selected store.
3. Open Management Center tools and from the left navigation menu, click Business tools > Store Management > Tax Codes.
4. Click Show filter. This enables the Type filter. From the type filter, select Sales tax. A list of sales tax codes is displayed.
5. To add a new code:
   1. Click New. A new tax code page displays. In the Details field, select Type from the drop-down menu. Enter the Name of the sales tax code. Be careful when choosing the name of your tax code. You can remove the code, but you cannot have a same name for two tax codes.
   2. Click Save. The tax category is displayed in the Tax codes list.
6. To set the default tax code, from the Tax codes list, select the code, then click Set as Default from Action menu. The default sales tax code is applied to all products that are not currently assigned to a sales tax code.
7. To delete a code, in the Tax codes list, select the code, then click Delete icon form Actions menu.

What to do next

If you did not choose Set as Default when you added a sales tax code, you will need to attach the new tax code to a catalog entry or category. You can also assign a tax code to products (catalog entry) or categories (catalog group) by inserting entries in CATENCALCD and CATGPCALCD table manually, so that the taxes can be applied to the specific products or all the products in the specific categories.