Squirrelcart allows you to charge sales tax on a State or Province basis. You can exclude or include items from being taxed on a per category or per product basis.
- Customer adds item to their cart
- Customer proceeds through checkout, and specifies their shipping address. Let's assume that they specified "Massachusetts" as their state
- Squirrelcart checks the items in the cart to see if they are designated as taxable. If they are not, no tax is applied. If they are, it continues to the next step below.
- Squirrelcart checks your database to see if you have any sales tax records created for Massachusetts. If it finds one, it charges the customer sales tax based on the percentage specified for Massachusetts in the Tax field on the Sales Tax record.
- Click the State / Province Sales Tax menu link
- Click

You will see a form like this:

- Choose the State from the State field
- Enter a decimal value for the Tax on Products, Tax on Shipping, and Tax on Handling fields as needed.
- Click
There are 2 ways to designate a product as taxable.
- Open the category you want to work with in the control panel.
- Set the Tax Items field to yes
After doing this, a VAT Rate field will appear. Ignore this field unless you use VAT, which is described later in this section.
- Click
- Products by default will use the sales tax setting on their category. To ensure that the product is setup to use this default, open it's record and check the Tax Item field. It should be set to Category Default.
- Open the product you wish to work with
- Set the Tax Item field to yes
- Click
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