Creating Tax Categories
Liferay Commerce uses tax categories to store and apply tax rates to channel products and shipping costs. Once a tax category is created, you can use tax calculation engines to add multiple tax rates to it. Tax rates are scoped to the channel where they’re created. You can then apply tax rates to channel products and shipping costs by assigning the tax category.
Tax categories serve as containers for tax rates and must be created before you can apply tax rates to any products or shipping costs.
Follow these steps to create a new tax category:
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Open the Global Menu (
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Click New.
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Enter a Name for your tax category.
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Optionally, enter a Description and External Reference Code.
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Click Save.
Once created, you can add tax rates to a tax category in each channel. See Setting Rates for Tax Calculations for more information.