Ex Vat and Inc Vat Prices on Product when Tax is Ticked

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Topic summary

A merchant is building a custom theme on Shopify Enterprise and wants to display both Ex VAT and Inc VAT prices on product pages. The challenge is handling products with 0% VAT (where “charge tax” is unticked) differently—ideally showing “VAT Free” instead of calculated prices.

Proposed Solution:

  • Use Liquid’s product.taxable attribute to conditionally check tax status
  • For taxable products: calculate and display both Ex VAT (price ÷ 1.20) and Inc VAT prices
  • For non-taxable products: display a “VAT Free” message
  • Code example provided shows the conditional logic structure

Alternative:

  • A third-party app called Taxify was suggested as a ready-made solution for displaying prices with/without VAT

The discussion remains open regarding whether the merchant implemented the Liquid solution or chose the app route.

Summarized with AI on October 26. AI used: claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929.
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Hi

We are trying to build a new theme using Enterprise. We would like to display an Ex Vat and Inc Vat price on all product pages. I can add using the formula to get it too display on all products.

What I am struggling with is we sell some products that are 0% vat. These products are unticked charge tax in the product setup.

I am hoping we can code the it so if the charge Tax on product is unticked it can display the price with VAT Free.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks

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use Liquid code to check if the product is taxable and then conditionally display the “Ex VAT” and “Inc VAT” prices or a “VAT Free” message
example

{% if product.taxable %}
  {% assign ex_vat_price = product.price | divided_by: 1.20 %}
  {% assign inc_vat_price = product.price %}
  

Ex VAT: {{ ex_vat_price | money }}

  

Inc VAT: {{ inc_vat_price | money }}

{% else %}
  

This product is VAT Free

{% endif %}

  • Check if the product is taxable: Use the product.taxable attribute to check if the product is taxable or not.

  • Calculate and Display Prices: Use Liquid to display the Ex VAT and Inc VAT prices if the product is taxable, or show a “VAT Free” message if it’s not.

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Hi Graham,
If you are still looking for a solution, we’ve recently launched a new app called Taxify which allows you to show prices including and excluding VAT :slight_smile: