How to change 0% tax rate for free products

  • Resolved Exon

    (@aidasgv)


    11 months, 1 week ago

    There is one issue when WooCommerce applies taxes on products with 0.00 $ price. I need the tax rate to be 21%, but somehow only for free products the tax rate appears to be 0%. I have only one tax class active in WooCommerce with a standard 21% tax rate. Product itself set to taxable.

    This is not a problem with a plugin which sets the product to free, because the same problem also appears with another plugin too where 0.00 $ appears in the cart.

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  • Plugin Support Shameem R. a11n

    (@shameemreza)

    Hi @aidasgv,

    This is because the tax is a percentage of the product price. If the product price is zero, then 21% of zero is still zero. This is not a bug, but how tax calculations work in general.

    If you want to apply a fixed tax amount regardless of the product price, you might need to use a custom function or a plugin that allows fixed tax amounts.

    I hope this clarifies your concern. Please feel free to ask if you have any other questions.

    Thread Starter Exon

    (@aidasgv)

    Hi @shameemreza,

    Thank you for your reply. I understand the math and it’s ok with 0 value, but somehow systems apply 0% VAT instead 21% VAT. We need apply 21% even if the product price is 0.00 $. Is this somehow possible to be forced?

    Hey, @aidasgv!

    To confirm if we understood it correctly: You need to show that the product has a 21% VAT, even if the value is 0, since the product is free, correct?

    As my colleague mentioned, this is not how it works on the plugin, so you need custom code to show the VAT even on free products.

    While we can’t provide support for code customization as per our support policy, we do our best to offer advice and direct you to appropriate resources.

    You can visit the WooCommerce Facebook group or the #developers channel of the WooCommerce Community Slack. We’re lucky to have a great community of open-source developers for WooCommerce, and many of our developers hang out there too.

    Please let us know if there’s anything else we can do to help or if you have any questions.

    Have a wonderful day!

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