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WooCommerce Services is a feature plugin that integrates hosted services into WooCommerce (3.0+), and currently includes automated tax rates and the ability to purchase and print USPS shipping labels.
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Tax Rates: Taxes To Be Collected For Online Sales In Wisconsin #1508

Open harishankerr opened 5 years ago

harishankerr commented 5 years ago

Wisconsin changed its tax rules, as on October 1st 2018 (today). As on today, out of state purchases made online will also be levied a 5% tax.

Reference: https://www.revenue.wi.gov/Pages/FAQS/ise-usetax.aspx#use6 https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2018/07/03/wisconsin-begin-collecting-online-sales-taxes-oct-1/753284002/

As on today, for a site with a store address of Wisconsin using WooCommerce Services, doesn't show up taxes when someone from outside the state makes a purchase. Tested this with the latest version of WooCommerce and WooCommerce Services installed (purchases for a Wisconsin store with a billing address outside Wisconsin doesn't show up tax rates, as it's supposed to be after this update).

I know that the actual tax rates are set by TaxJar, but noting this here, just in case.

spraveenitpro commented 5 years ago

pinging @Automattic/hydra

LaurenaRehbein commented 5 years ago

Resolution:

WooCommerce Services has some limitations when it comes to correctly handling this new scenario, where a seller in one state (in this case, Wisconsin) has tax nexus in more than one location.

So you will want to look at other options to ensure you are correctly collecting taxes. Here are some options:

  1. Continue using WooCommerce Services for your home state, but add tax rates for the other states manually in the standard tax tables (possible as of version 1.16.0)
  2. Stop using WooCommerce Services entirely, and use manual tax rates (directions for this are in the same link as in Number 1)
  3. Look at using the full TaxJar solution. Our integration for this is free, but TaxJar does charge fees. If you go this route, you will be looking at adding Nexus for each state you should be charging tax for, and the rest will be automated.