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Sales Tax/VAT Jurisdictions

RealCart allows you to add as many tax jurisdictions as you need. In other words, you can add a tax rate for the state that your business resides in as well as any states with which your state has sales or Value Added Tax agreements.

There are options to add State, City, and VAT taxes, where applicable. Highlight the type of tax you wish to be accrued to your customers’ purchases. Click on the “Add” button to acquire the dialog box that allows you to enter either your city or state (or country if adding VAT tax). Fill in the active information fields (those which are not greyed out), including the rate of tax assessed in the jurisdiction you are adding.

Keep in mind that the tax rate must be a decimal. For example, if your sales tax rate is 8.5% then you would enter this as “.085”. If you entered 8.5 in the Tax Rate field your taxable transactions would be taxed at 850%. Perform a test transaction for each city, state or country you entered tax rates for to be sure your entries are correct.

If you find yourself needing to make changes you may edit previously entered values by highlighting a tax jurisdiction and clicking the “Edit” button. You can similarly delete previously entered valued with the “Delete” button.

Common questions about this dialog box:

For more Frequently Asked Questions please review our FAQ pages.

User Manual

There is more info on this topic in our on-line User Manual