Tax exempt linked to tax rates

Hello!

I have been battling with the whole tax exemption in EU in WooCommerce for quite a while.

What is the behavior I need:
If customer from outside EU – apply no tax (this works great)
If customer from inside EU but no VAT number – apply respective tax (this works great using itemized tax display at checkout)
If customer from inside EU with VAT number, I use a plugin VAT Number checker that sets for that order is_vat_exempt() flag or however it’s called, BUT that means it will not show up at checkout, after checkout when reviewing the order, or in the confirmation email.

I did find these filters:

add_filter( 'woocommerce_cart_hide_zero_taxes', '__return_false' );
add_filter( 'woocommerce_order_hide_zero_taxes', '__return_false' );

But in cart they do not work when showing itemized tax (which I need, for the correct VAT name in every country). Plus, as mentioned above, the tax field is not shown at any point.

One thing I can do, is show this during checkout using this filter:

add_filter('woocommerce_cart_tax_totals', function($tax_totals) {
  if(empty( $tax_totals ) && wc()->customer->is_vat_exempt()) {
    $tax_totals['zero-rated'] = (object) array(
      'label' => 'VAT Exempt (reverse-charge)',
      'amount' => 0,
      'formatted_amount' => woocommerce_price(0),
      'name' => '0% VAT',
      'is_compound' => false,
    );
  }

But this solution only works during checkout…at the review page or in the confirmation email is gone, and because I need PDF invoices, it’s not there either.

MY PROPOSED SOLUTION:
I believe that all these issues could be resolved with a simple filter (that I cannot write). What if there would be a filter that looks if the order is_vat_exempt() and automatically transfers the vat rate to “Zero Rate”. I can define the list of countries and what text I need to write (reverse charge etc.) in the tax tab in WooCommerce and if it will show even 0% tax…then ALL these issues should be gone.

It should appear at checkout, during the review phase, on the confirmation e-mail and even on any PDF invoice, because it is a tax field.

Is this possible? Could anyone help me with this perhaps? I don’t believe it is a complicated code…

Thank you!
Christian

• This topic was modified 4 years ago by dragoscristian.