Hi @JamieBuck ,
No need to apologize! Getting your head around taxes can always be tricky, so there’s no shame in reaching out for help. I’m happy to offer my advice.
If you’re not required to charge taxes for your products yet, either in the UK or in other regions where to may sell to, you can leave the “charge tax on this product” option disabled. You would only need to enable this option if and when you are required to charge any of your customers sales taxes when they place their orders. This option can also be used to determine which products require taxes to be charged when bought for when you are collecting and paying sales taxes, as some products may be tax-exempt. You can leave this option disabled for now, if indeed you are not charging sales tax at this time.
In terms of the “Show all prices with tax included” option, it again doesn’t matter too much if you are not collecting sales taxes at this time, but if your primary market is the UK/ EU then you can go ahead and enable it. This option determines whether the listed prices of your products includes the taxable amount, and if it’s disabled then any eligible taxes will be added as an additional cost to the listed price of the product (which is generally how taxes are shown in the USA and Canada). If you enable this option and a customer places an order, they will see that a tax rate of 0% has been applied to the order if you’ve not required them to pay any tax.
You can read more about setting up taxes here, but please let me know if you’ve any further questions.
Kind regards,
Victor | Shopify Social Care