Tax setup for Canadian wineries

Accounting & Taxes

Topic summary

Main issue: An Ontario winery must show tax-included prices for wine but show pre‑tax prices for other items (e.g., apparel, glassware). Shopify supports either tax-included or tax-excluded display globally, not both concurrently. Apps suggested (e.g., Avalara) are U.S.-focused and not suitable for this Canadian requirement.

Proposed workaround: Set wine products’ admin price to the pre‑tax amount (e.g., $44.25) and create two product page templates:

  • Wine template: calculates and displays the tax-included price on the front end (e.g., shows $50 total with $5.75 tax implicitly included).
  • Non‑wine template: displays the base price only; tax is added at checkout.
    This is a theme/front-end customization and does not alter checkout tax calculation.

Status: No confirmation of adoption or alternative solutions; discussion remains open with one concrete approach (dual templates with pre‑tax admin pricing for wine).

Summarized with AI on December 17. AI used: gpt-5.
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Hi @turkmen ,

From my understanding for wine products tax needs to be included in the display price and with your current settings having a default price of $50 will re-calculate tax at checkout. To solve for this the price in Admin should be $44.25 then you can use two different product page templates. One for wine that takes the before tax price and calculates the tax then displays it showing $50. The other template use it for everything else.

Just to recap: duplicate your product page template for tax-included. This would be a customization that changes the price on the front-end, not anything happening on checkout.