Best way to set up nett pricing so taxes are added by Shopify

Payments + Shipping & Fulfilment

Topic summary

A merchant is struggling to configure net (tax-exclusive) pricing in Shopify. Currently, they must enter gross prices (including tax) and have Shopify calculate taxes out, which prevents them from issuing tax-exclusive prices or creating orders without tax.

Desired setup:

  • Store all product prices as net amounts
  • Have Shopify automatically add taxes at checkout
  • Ability to create tax-exempt orders when needed

Current configuration:

  • “Include sales tax in product price and shipping” is already unchecked in Global Settings
  • “Charge tax on this variant” is enabled at product level
  • VAT collection is active

Status: The merchant believes they’re configuring something incorrectly but hasn’t identified the solution. They’ve shared screenshots of their tax settings and product variant configuration. The discussion remains open with no resolution provided yet.

Summarized with AI on October 29. AI used: claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929.
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At the moment to charge the proper price I seem to have to put the full Gross price against the product, including the taxes and then

  • check the “charge tax on this variant”

  • and ensure I’m collecting VAT

in order to have the taxes displayed and separated out.

This means

  • all my stored prices are including taxes which are then calculated OUT to separate out and display the taxes.

  • I cannot issue a price ex taxes because the system is pulling through the gross amount

I would like to store all pricing as Net pricing and have shopify add on the taxes when displayed in the webshop so when I need to create an order without tax I can do this.

I’m sure I’m setting this up incorrectly.

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Thanks for coming back to me. At the bottom of the Taxes and duties page there’s a section for Global Settings in which there’s “Include sales tax in product price and shipping”. This is already unchecked. Is there somewhere else?

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Could it have something to do with the procing at product level charging tax on the variant?

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