Drupal - Setup Taxes

In general, tax is a financial charge upon a taxpayer or is a source of public revenue. Sales tax is a basic type of tax levied on the sale of certain goods and services.

You can specify the tax rate for the products as defined in the following steps −

Step 1 − Go to Store and click Configuration.

Step 2 − Click on the Taxes link which manages tax rates and types.

Step 3 − Click Add a tax rate link to add tax for the product.

Step 4 − It will open the taxes window for adding tax rate to the product as shown in the following screen.

It contains some fields such as −

• Title − It is title of the tax rate.

• Display title − It is the front-end display title of the tax rate shown to customers.

• Description − It is used to describe the tax rate.

• Rate − It is a percentage used to calculate the tax which is expressed as a decimal.

• Type − It selects the tax type for the tax rate using drop-down menu.

After filling all the fields, click the Save tax rate button.

Step 5 − You will see the created tax rate name which is used for the product as shown in the following screen.

Step 6 − Go to Home page and click the View cart link to see the products in shopping cart.

Step 7 − Click the Checkout button to see the tax rate added for the products.

Step 8 − You can see the tax rate added along with the Subtotal as shown in the following screen.