New Feature - Custom Tax Rates

Custom tax rates allow you to specify the rates you want to charge for sales tax in countries & regions you are required to collect and remit sales tax in.  We cannot advise you which countries and regions those are.  For USA based artists, generally, you must collect and remit sales tax in the state where you live.  In some cases in other states as well, please discuss the matter with a tax professional.

If you enable custom tax rates, they will take precedence over any other methods you are using to collect taxes (such as setting up your tax rates in paypal) and the tax will be shown in the shopping cart as the user checks out.

To access custom tax rates, please visit the commerce page and click on "custom tax rates"

You will see the custom tax rates screen, by default they are not active:

After you add any tax rates regions you want to collect tax in, click "Change Setting"

You must enabled both check boxes to use custom tax rates.  The first check box enables the custom tax rates, and the 2nd checkbox tells the shopping cart to start collecting the customer's shipping address at the time of checkout (instead of waiting and letting paypal handle collecting the shipping info).  Both pieces of information are needed to calculate if the tax rate needs to be charged:

After saving, you will see that the custom tax rates are active: