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ShopSite Setup Wizard - Sales Tax

You can set up your ShopSite store to automatically calculate sales tax for your location. You can create up to three user-selectable tax rates on this screen, and choose what to apply taxes on. Because taxes can vary so much based on where you and your customers are located, you may later need to set up some more complex tax rules, including zip-based tax calculation.

Sales Tax Applies To
Select whether to calculate sales tax using no taxes, the shopping cart sub-total (total cost of products in cart minus any discounts), or the sub-total plus any shipping and handling charges.
Sales Tax Rates
You can enter up to three tax rates that customers will be able to select from. It is a good idea to list the rates in the order they are most likely to be used, starting with the most common. Enter a description for the tax rate in the box on the left, and the actual percentage tax rate in the box to the right. Leave both fields in a row blank if you are not using it.

An example of how you may want to set up your taxes might be:

Description Tax Rate
Ship outside My State - 0.00% 0.00
Ship within My State, outside My City - X.XX% X.XX
Ship within My City, My State - Y.YY% Y.YY
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Last updated: March 01, 2010
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