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  • Setting Up EU VAT Rates for Digital Products

    EU VAT laws for digital goods changed on 1 January 2015, affecting B2C transactions only. VAT on digital goods must be calculated based on customer location, and you’re required to collect evidence of this via an IP address and/or Billing Address. In addition, you need to set up VAT rates in your WooCommerce store to […]

  • EU VAT July 2021 changes, eCommerce, and WooCommerce

    Overview The European Union (EU) introduced new regulations related to Value Added Tax (VAT) on July 1, 2021. Merchants selling across borders within the EU or importing to the EU need to comply. In this documentation we will provide key changes and scenarios for the new changes, although this is not exhaustive. For general advice […]

  • How to handle multiple regions and currencies with WooCommerce

    In a global age, there are a number of elements that play a role in selling in multiple currencies and languages. Here we discuss several of those.

  • Setting up taxes in WooCommerce

    A step-by-step guide to setting up Tax Rates for your store

  • How Taxes Work in WooCommerce

    There are more challenging tax configurations where an understanding of how taxes work in WooCommerce help with configuration and troubleshooting. Let’s take a look at a few nuances. Related guides for additional reference: Defining Prices Product prices can be defined as either: When we say defined including tax, we are referring to the taxes of […]

  • How to configure specific tax setups in WooCommerce

    The tax scenarios in this document are step-by-step guides that show how to configure specific tax setups in WooCommerce. They provide all the steps needed to achieve a particular outcome but without going into detail. Due to the uniqueness and variety of stores out there, the scenarios are not exhaustive and for illustration purposes only. […]

  • Troubleshooting Core Taxes

    This document contains troubleshooting suggestions for issues related to taxes in WooCommerce. What this guide covers The WooCommerce plugin includes support for basic tax rates. These built-in tax options are referred to as Core Taxes. Using Core Taxes, you can set up basic tax options under WooCommerce > Settings on the “Tax” tab, and also […]