After you have created at least one tax, a dialog box titled 'Taxes options' appears below the 'Taxes' dialog box in the 'Taxes' section. This dialog box provides some options allowing you to choose how you want your taxes to be applied and displayed. The options in this dialog box affect all the taxes in your store in general.
The following options are provided:
| ▪ | Display cart/order totals including tax: This option defines whether tax cost is displayed included in the order totals or not. When this option is disabled, the order totals on the 'Payment details' page of checkout are displayed like this: |
When this option is enabled, the order totals are displayed like this:
Note: please keep in mind that if you select to display order totals including tax, all the discount coupon sums will also be counted as including tax.
| ▪ | Display a tax rate for each product in cart/order: This option defines whether tax rates are displayed for each product being ordered. When this option is enabled, the information about the products being ordered is displayed like this: |
When this option is disabled, the column with tax rates for each product is not displayed.
| ▪ | Enable tax exemption for customers: This option defines whether tax exemption feature for customers is enabled at your store or not.When this option is enabled, a check box 'Tax exemption' is added to the 'Profile details' page for customers. |
Note: You can use this check box to specify whether the customer should be taxed or not (A selected check box corresponds to 'This customer is should not be taxed', an unselected check box - to 'This customer should be taxed').
When this option is disabled, the 'Tax exemption' check box does not appear.
| ▪ | Allow customers to modify their tax number after tax exemption is enabled: This option defines whether customers can modify their tax number after tax exemption has been enabled in their profile. You may want to keep this option disabled to prevent customers from changing their tax numbers without your knowing. |
Note: This option works only if the field 'Tax number' is enabled for customer user profiles via General settings->User Profiles options and the option 'Enable tax exemption for customers' is enabled.
To adjust the options:
| 1. | Select the check boxes for the options that need to be enabled. Unselect the check boxes for the options that need to be disabled. |
| 2. | Click the Update button to apply the changes. |