Creating Tax Categories for Commerce 2.1 and Earlier Versions

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.

Note

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:

1. Navigate to the Control Panel → Commerce → Settings.

2. Click the Tax Categories tab.

   

3. Click the Add Tax Category () button.

4. Enter the following:

   • Name: Holiday Special
   • Description: Taxes for holidays

   

5. Click Save.

A new tax category has been created.