Create a Sales Tax Region

Create Tax Regions for shipping Products to various locations

  1. Create the single-rate Tax Groups and Rates sales taxes as indicated in Create a Single-rate Sales Tax
  2. You can group similar taxes into Tax Groups, that is state taxes into a state group, city taxes into a city group, etc. The Tax Rates within Tax Groups provide the tax rates for Regions and Sub-regions
  3. Click the Tax Regions tab
  4. Click the '+' button to create a new Region
  5. Indicate its name and code
  6. If appropriate, add Sub-Regions, indicating the names and codes. The sales tax in sub-regions will be the sum of the sub-region plus the parent regions
  7. If appropriate, indicate the Default Tax Region
  8. Click on the Groups & Rates tab
  9. Select the Tax Group
  10. In the right-hand pane, associate the Tax Rate with the Region

To implement Tax Regions

  • In the Manager > Products > Pricing window, select the Tax Group that applies to the Product
  • On Customer cards, click the Shipping Info dropdown menu
  • Select the Tax Region that applies to the customer

The Tax report will show the sales tax collected for each tax authority

Notes

  1. Sales tax information configured in Checkout is not used in Shopify. Shopify sales tax information is configured through the Shopify admin login.