A sales tax is applied to the total cost or your order. A sales tax code is a name for a grouping of sales taxes that is applied to the same products. For example, all sales taxes applicable to groceries could be grouped under a single tax code called groceries. Then, you could assign the groceries tax code to each grocery product.
Important:
- If, when initially created, you based your store on one of the sample store archives, default sales tax codes are set up for you. You can use this default sales tax code, or you can delete it and create a new one.
- The sample stores and the Tax notebook only support a single sales tax code. To add more tax codes to your stores, see the WebSphere Commerce Store Development Guide.
To change sales tax codes, do the following:
- Open WebSphere Commerce Accelerator.
- From either the Store or Hub
menu,From the Store menu, select
Change Tax.
The Tax notebook opens. - From the left navigation frame, click Sales Tax.
- To add a code, do the following:
- In the New sales tax code field, type the name of the sales tax
code.
Be careful when choosing the name of your tax code. You can remove the code, but you cannot change the name of the tax code. - Click Add. The tax category displays in the Defined sales tax codes list.
- In the New sales tax code field, type the name of the sales tax
code.
- To set the default tax code, from the Define sales tax codes list, select the code, then click Set as Default. The default sales tax code is applied to all products that are not currently assigned to a sales tax code.
- To delete a code, in the Defined sales tax codes list, select the code, then click Remove.
- Click OK to save your settings and exit.