Taxation at a Variant Level

[alexfwalker]

We sell books on our Shopify website. In some US states and some European countries, different product formats attract different rates of tax. For example, in the UK a printed (physical) book is zero rated, as are eBooks or Audiobooks. However, in some territories, the physical book is zero rated but the Audiobook of the same title attracts X% tax.

We don't want to separate printed books, eBooks and Audiobooks for the same title into separate listings, so we need to be able to apply tax rates at a variant level of the product. However, what we are finding is that Shopify only permits us to apply a tax rate to the parent level of the product.

Is there a way to apply taxes to product variations in Shopify?

[100x-elevate]

@alexfwalker Shopify does not natively enable setting taxes at the variant level, tax settings apply at a product level only. When dealing with multiple variants, which have their different tax rates, you can use a third-party application or engage with a Shopify Expert who can create a custom solution using Shopify's API to manage tax logic specific to each variant.

[PaulNewton]

You can't tag variants.

@100x-elevate  Don't spam chatgpt solutions

Don't spam chatgpt solutions , actually read and engage, and fact check what it randomly generates.

 Creating misinformation will make you lose your forum account.

[alexfwalker]

Sorry, I'm not 100% clear on what part of Elevate response to trust! I know you can't tag variants, so am ignoring that part. But I am curious about 3rd party apps as if I've understood correctly and Shopify only allows tax rate to be set at parent level, not variant level, then a 3rd party app couldn't help us anyway?