Retrieving tax-exempted prices on the entire storefront (not just cart page) using Liquid

Technical Q&A

Topic summary

A developer is investigating inconsistent tax-exemption behavior across two Shopify stores for tax-exempt customers.

Store 1 (Current Issue):

  • Tax adjustments affect the base product price
  • Tax-exempt pricing only appears on the cart page via the line_item Liquid object

Store 2 (Desired Behavior):

  • Tax calculations appear separately in the TAX section without modifying base prices
  • Also shows exempt prices only on cart page currently

Key Questions:

  1. How to display tax-exempt prices across all storefront pages (not just cart)?
  2. How to determine which store behavior (X or Y) is expected and whether it can be controlled?

The goal is achieving consistent price display throughout the storefront that reflects tax exemptions, rather than limiting this information to the cart page only.

Summarized with AI on November 17. AI used: claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929.
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We noticed Shopify behaves differently for the store having set a tax-exempted customer. Please check the details:

For the first store:

  • Shopify’s tax adjustment is currently affecting the base price of the product.
  • Shopify offers the tax-exempt price only on the cart page through liquid.

For the second tore:

  • Shopify’s tax computation occurs within the TAX section, impacting that section, not the base product price.
  • The storefront maintains a consistent price display, irrespective of tax exemption adjustments.

Questions:

  1. How do we determine which store should have the expected X or Y behavior? Is there a way to do so?
  2. Where can we find the tax-exempt product price on all storefront pages? Currently, Shopify offers the exempted price only on the cart page through the line_item object using line_item.price.