We are planning to move our online store from WooCommerce to Shopify. In WooCommerce, we can assign a tax class (food and beverage, household, apparel, etc.) so our TaxJar, sales tax app can calculate the correct tax rate for each product in a cart at the checkout. Can you also assign a tax class …

Please do share your findings, @CanisLupus . It might help any other merchant who have the same questions regarding TaxJar with their store. I hope it can do what you need!

Hi @CanisLupus , This is a really great question! There’s no way to set categories or tax classes on products in Shopify and the closest thing we would have would be the “Tax Code” field on the products page, which is only available for merchants on the Plus plan using Avalara . TaxJar do however h…

US sales tax rate calculation based on the type of product

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CanisLupus November 24, 2021, 2:49pm 3

Thank you, Nick. I will get in touch with TaxJar. I might even post my findings later on.

Cheers!

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