Closed gabrielbonifacio closed 2 years ago
4723579-zen
I can't find any changes to California taxes for 2022 that would cause the change, and https://developers.taxjar.com/demo/ doesn't show taxes calculating for shipping to California when the store location is elsewhere.
I can reproduce this in a test store:
"has_nexus":true
for a California shipping address. "has_nexus":false
.4723901-zen 33535695-hc
Another report in 4716415-zen
Another instance in 31708028-hc. Tax nexus is in FL. The issue began on Monday Jan 24th for them.
Another report 22127360-hc, they didn't have problems before Jan 25th.
4727547-zen. WA based site now collecting taxes for WA and CA. Replicated on a clean staging environment.
More reports in
4727272-zen 4727288-zen
33911642-hc
I'm noticing same issue with AZ > CA orders.
Another report in 4726410-zen (WA-based site, taxes collected for CA orders)
It looks like the issue was caused by some API misconfiguration, which is now resovled. While we investigate this further to prevent additional cases, we recommend going into the WooCommerce settings and manually removing misconfigured values for "US-CA".
This can be done by going into WooCommerce > Settings > Tax > Standard tax rates. On that page, you can select all the "US CA" tax lines, click "Remove selected rows" and then "save".
In the meantime, we will keep investigating to find a solution that can avoid this manual step.
This can be done by going into WooCommerce > Settings > Tax > Standard tax rates. On that page, you can select all the "US CA" tax lines, click "Remove selected
@frosso In my tests, deleting the rate didn’t work. It would be re-added as soon I as entered a California address again on the Checkout or Cart.
As I workaround, I tried to manually add a tax of 0% for California. That rate got replaced by the plugin as well.
Yes, as soon as someone checks out with a California zipcode, taxes are applied on the checkout page, and a new CA tax rate is added in the 'Standard Tax Rate' page. This scenario keeps repeating itself.
@frosso In my tests, deleting the rate didn’t work. It would be re-added as soon I as entered a California address again on the Checkout or Cart.
As I workaround, I tried to manually add a tax of 0% for California. That rate got replaced by the plugin as well.
@gabrielbonifacio That was the case before the adjustment to our API. With the change made today, that should not happen any longer. Are you still seeing that occur?
In order to prevent future occurrences, please do the following:
Standard Rates
CA
(hold the Shift
key to select more than one at a time)Remove selected row(s)
button at the bottom of the rate table.Now that we’ve removed the source of those tax rates being added and applied, any new orders from CA customers should not have tax applied.
Everything is now working correctly. Thanks for your help. It was very much appreciated...
I'm closing this for now.
The API configuration has been adjusted. We added a store notice to alert merchants that might have been impacted by the issue. The notice links to the documentation. We updated the documentation with steps the merchants can follow on how to mitigate the issue: https://woocommerce.com/document/woocommerce-shipping-and-tax/woocommerce-tax/#jan-2022-ca-notice We added a tool in WooCommerce > Status > Tools > Delete California tax rates to help merchants that have been impacted by the issue.
I am able to confirm this issue has come back. Re-opening the issue. I was looking into an issue reported in 5352039-zen and testing on my staging. Then found out that the CA taxes have been automatically added to Standard Rate tax as described in the original issue reporting.
I have then installed new install of staging site using Jurrasic Ninja, and used COD as payment gateway. The issue is present. Here is the example screenshot of Standard Tax rate that is automatically added after order is placed: https://d.pr/i/fPGZg6
I further tested and confirmed that this time CA tax is not added when the Nexus is not CA. (Nexus is CO, and order is placed with CA address = No Standard Rates added)
I have also tested different Nexus (CO) and when CO address is entered for an order, I was able to confirm that CO Standard Tax rate is also entered.
So this is not affecting just CA this time.
I am going to close this case now since this was re-opened due to my misunderstanding of a case I was working on. Sorry about this!
Describe the bug:
If you have a tax nexus outside California, but enter a California shipping address on the Checkout, the following will happen:
Even if you delete that tax, it will be re-added as soon as you enter a California address on the Checkout again.
Steps to reproduce:
38612 Kalifornsky Beach Rd, Bradenton, FL 34211
.San Francisco, CA 94110
.Link to image: https://d.pr/i/7Y5aJr
Link to image: https://d.pr/i/WwcpfL
Link to image: https://d.pr/i/0U2TZU
Expected behavior:
No tax should be charged, since the tax nexus is outside California and there are no manual rates for that state.
Actual behavior:
Taxes are added anyway, and also a manual rate are added on WooCommerce's Tax Settings (Standard rates section).
Isolating the problem:
Additional details:
Right now I'm aware of two different instances of this issue:
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