Update Tax Settings

Describes the fallback behavior that applies when a tax provider produces an error. A merchant may decide to use a flat 10% fallback tax rate, their basic tax settings, or to block the transaction until they achieve a successful result.

This setting applies only if a merchant enters tax-inclusive prices. When enabled, the store subtracts the itemʼs store tax rate before calculating tax using the shopperʼs tax zone. The tax-exclusive amount will be the same across all tax zones. When disabled, the tax-inclusive price remains the same across all tax zones; only the tax amount will vary based on the shopperʼs location. The tax-exclusive amount may vary among tax zones. These calculations are relevant for tax pricing and tax quotations that use basic tax.

This setting determines which tax zone a store uses to estimate tax for guest shoppers. When enabled, the store identifies a country-level tax zone based on the geolocation of a guest shopper. The store then applies the corresponding tax zone to estimate taxes. When disabled, the store identifies the zone using the provided guest_shopper_tax_zone_id field instead. Only the tax zones you configure can be matched to the guest shopper’s geolocation.

ID for the tax zone a store uses when estimating tax for guest shoppers. The store uses this zone if you disable should_use_geolocation_to_determine_guest_shopper_tax_zone. The store also uses this zone if there is no matching country-level tax zone for the geolocation.

ID for the tax zone a store uses when subtracting store tax. This setting applies only if a merchant enters tax-inclusive prices and subtracts store tax before tax calculation.

This setting determines whether BigCommerce submits tax documents to third-party tax providers when orders are created or when payments are captured online.

This setting affects the rounding behavior of tax amounts calculated by the basic tax provider. The NO_ROUNDING option offers a high accuracy total tax amount for orders. The RATE_ROUNDING option means every resulting tax rate amount has been rounded based on the active currency’s precision settings. Note that tax is always calculated on the line item amount after discounts.