@alexfwalker Shopify does not natively enable setting taxes at the variant level, tax settings apply at a product level only. When dealing with multiple variants, which have their different tax rates, you can use a third-party application or engage with a Shopify Expert who can create a custom solution using Shopify’s API to manage tax logic specific to each variant.
Topic summary
A bookseller faces a challenge with Shopify’s tax configuration: different product formats (printed books, eBooks, audiobooks) of the same title require different tax rates in various jurisdictions, but they want to keep all formats as variants within a single product listing.
Core Issue:
- Shopify only allows tax rates to be set at the product level, not at the variant level
- Example: UK physical books are zero-rated while audiobooks may be taxed, but both are variants of the same product
Proposed Solutions & Concerns:
- One user suggested third-party apps or custom API solutions to handle variant-level tax logic
- This suggestion was challenged as potentially AI-generated misinformation
- The original poster questions whether third-party apps could actually circumvent Shopify’s product-level tax limitation
Status: The discussion remains unresolved, with uncertainty about whether any workaround exists for applying different tax rates to product variants within Shopify’s architecture.