Displaying gross and net prices with 2 different taxes in 1 shop

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Hey guys,

a question regarding the displaying of the german VAT as net prices without tax.
We are just setting up the shop. Shopify Plan: basic

German VAT: products with 19% VAT and products with 7% VAT

Our shop has products with 2 different taxes. Most of them have 19% VAT and others have 7% VAT. Our problem is that we need to show correct net prices of all products (19% products and 7% products) for wholesalers/b2b customers in the shop.

The basic setting for the shop is with 19% VAT and the 7% VAT Products are in a collection (collection with only 7% VAT Products) to override the basic VAT setting.

Any ideas would be pretty much appreciated!

Best

Julian

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Hi there,

On Shopify Basic, there’s no built-in option to dynamically display net prices (without tax) while still keeping different VAT rates (19% & 7%) visible for the correct products.

Here’s what you can do:

1. Store both tax-inclusive and tax-exclusive prices in Liquid

  • Shopify always stores the base price as tax-exclusive internally.

  • You can use Liquid math in your theme to remove the VAT amount from the displayed price based on the product’s VAT rate. For example:

{% assign vat_rate = 0.19 %}
{% if product.collections contains '7-vat' %}
  {% assign vat_rate = 0.07 %}
{% endif %}

{% assign net_price = product.price | divided_by: 1 | times: 1 %}
{% assign net_price = net_price | divided_by: 1 | times: 1 %}
{% assign net_price = product.price | divided_by: 1 | divided_by: 1.0 %}

Net: {{ product.price | divided_by: 1 | divided_by: (1 | plus: vat_rate) | money }}

(Adjust to your theme’s currency format.)

2. Identify 7% VAT products

  • You’ve already created a collection for 7% VAT products.

  • In Liquid, check if the product belongs to this collection and adjust the VAT rate accordingly.

3. Limitations

  • This only changes the display of prices, not how Shopify calculates them in checkout (checkout will still add the correct VAT rate automatically).

  • If you want B2B customers to always see net prices, you might need an app that supports customer tagging and conditional price display (like B2B/Wholesale Solution or Exemptify).

4. Recommended app route
If you don’t want to touch code, apps like Exemptify or B2B/Wholesale Club can:

  • Detect if a customer is tagged as B2B.

  • Show net prices without tax in the storefront.

  • Keep VAT calculations correct in checkout for both 19% & 7% products.

Sinh Developer, from Tipo