Defining shipping tax codes

A shipping tax code is a name for a grouping of shipping taxes that is applied to the same products. For example, all taxes applicable to shipping to a certain region could be grouped under a single tax code called Regional shipping tax. Then, you could assign the Regional shipping tax code to each product that is shipped to that region.

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. HCL Commerce Version 9.1.16.0 or later 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 Shipping tax. A list of shipping 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

After you define shipping tax codes, you are now ready to Define tax categories.