Showing taxes on cart/checkout

  • I am trying to get my tax amount to display on the cart/checkout pages and alter the total price; currently none of this is happening.

    In my general tab I enabled taxes. In the tax tab I configured it like this. On the cart page I’ve seen, under the cart total table, a section that read “Taxes” and included the amount, and total would be total price+tax amount, but nothing I do makes it work. Here is a screenshot how the Standard Rates table is configured.

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  • Because you have set “calculate tax based on” = “customer shipping address”, the tax cannot be worked out until after the customer shipping address has been entered on the checkout page.

    Its not possible for WooCommerce to work out the tax on the cart page because the shipping address is not available at that time. I don’t think its possible to enter the city in the cart page shipping calculator.

    Even then, I expect you will only get tax worked out on the checkout page if you enter one of the country + state + zip + city combinations that is listed in the standard rates table, otherwise tax will be zero.

    Thread Starter navyspitfire

    (@navyspitfire)

    Thank you, that makes sense. So if I enable shipping calculator on the cart page, can tax be figured out by the customers zip? Essentially, I am wondering if you know of a solution to display the tax on the cart page. Thanks.

    I enabled the shipping calculator on my cart page on my dev site. I could enter a country, state and zip but there is nowhere to enter a city, and this is required by your standard rates table, so I would not expect that to work. Try it.

    You can set a default customer location, but that doesn’t extend to zip and city, and I don’t know if that’s a billing or shipping address, so I can’t see that working either.

    If you can make your customers create an account and enter a shipping address before they shop, and login on each visit, that might work, but I can’t see customers being happy to do that before they shop.

    I think you would have to have a note or link to explain to customers that prices exclude tax and tax will be added at checkout depending on shipping address, and perhaps a table to show the percentage tax that will be applied.

    Alternatively can you apply tax based on shop base address? I don’t know what you sell or your local laws.

    Thread Starter navyspitfire

    (@navyspitfire)

    @lorro

    I feel like I tried everything to no avail. I have both tables in my database, both populated. WC settings seem good. Taxes > Standard section is completely filled with zip codes.

    Thread Starter navyspitfire

    (@navyspitfire)

    Weird, I deleted all my taxes and just set a state tax, rather than area code, and it worked.

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