Applying Taxes to Products

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After the necessary taxes have been configured, they need to be applied to products. This step is very important, because taxes will not work until you tell X-Cart to which products you wish them applied to.

The 'Product details' dialog box (the one you will use to add/modify products - see the section Adding Products further in this manual for details) contains a field 'Apply tax'. This field is a selectbox providing names of all taxes defined in the store. When creating a new product, you will use the 'Apply tax' field to apply taxes to your products.

To apply one or more taxes to a product:

1.	Find the product to which you would like to apply taxes and open it for modification. A dialog box titled 'Product details' opens.

2.	In the 'Apply tax' field of the 'Product details' dialog box, highlight the name of the tax that needs to be applied to the product. If you need to highlight more than one tax, hold down the CTRL key while selecting the desired names of taxes with your mouse.

3.	Click the Save button to apply the changes.

If the same tax or set of taxes need to be applied to more than one product, you can apply them simultaneously to multiple products by editing them in batch. Instructions for mass-editing of products are provided in the section Group product editing of the chapter Managing Existing Products.

Non-taxable products

If your store is going to sell non-taxable products, you will need to adjust their details in such a way that no taxes will be applied.

For non-taxable products, the tax settings in the 'Product details' need to be adjusted like this:

1.	Select Yes from the 'Tax exempt' drop-down box.

2.	Select nothing from the 'Apply tax' field.

3.	Click the Save button to apply the changes.