Tax exempt means that a particular item or transaction is not subject to taxation, which means that no tax will be added to the price of the item or transaction. This can happen for various reasons, such as if the buyer is exempt from taxes due to their status, or if the item being sold is exempt from taxes by law.
Tax included in price, on the other hand, means that the price of an item already includes the applicable taxes. This is often the case in countries where sales tax or value-added tax (VAT) is imposed on goods and services. In such countries, the price tag of an item will often indicate the final price that the buyer needs to pay, inclusive of all taxes.
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Under Business "Settings" we can add or update Taxes we want to set for our Taxable Product and Services.
Go to Left Panel under "Settings" click "Taxes".
Add New Tax by Clicking "Add New Tax", and enter information in the required fields.
a. Name : Enter Tax name is important
b. Apply To: Select if it will apply to Sales or Purchases
c. Account: For accounting purposes, select the account name to show in ledger for your taxes
d. Tax Rate : Enter an amount in percentage for the Tax rate
e. Type: If Tax will be included to the price or Added to the price ( excluded )
f. Option : Assign tax designation to "Apply to existing items", " Apply to new items " or Apply to All items including existing or new items.
g. Location: Select from list of your stores to where the taxes will apply to.
Tax Included in Price
Example 1: In the below example, A Sales tax of 12% and included to the price with option to apply to all items in the inventory.
Going back to Item maintenance in Product / Services, All items have an option to activate the created Tax.
In Example below, the taxes for this item has been set to Active.
Note: You may put the item tax inactive by toggling it off.
Since the Tax has been included to the item price upon checkout it will show the breakdown of tax from the total item price.
Tax is Added in Price
Example: In the below example, A Sales tax of 12% and included to the price with option to apply to all items in the inventory.
Since the tax type is Added, there is no need to toggle taxes in item maintenance screen. Taxes will apply to each of the product item during checkout and will show breakdown over the total price
This price of the item/services should not be differ upon checkout as this item/service has tax exemption ( not including the service and shipping charge if applicable ).
How Tax exempt products/services price breakdown shows in checkout page.
What is Tax Exempted?
A tax exempt item or service is an item or service that is exempt from certain taxes, such as sales tax, due to its exempt status.
For example, in the United States, certain items and services may be exempt from sales tax, such as food, medicine, and certain types of clothing and footwear. Similarly, some services may be exempt from tax, such as medical services, educational services, and certain types of professional services.
Let's go to Inventory/Catalog to see how to set Tax Included in creating our Product and Services.
Go to Inventory/Catalog and click Product/Services
To create a new item click + Add Item.
Upon adding an item/service we need to Toggle on the Tax exempt in price.
In Sales Price Field we have entered the selling price for our item/services.
