Tax Rate Configuration

[pevey]

Hello.

I have a store that is currently using Magento 2, and I've been exploring options for moving away from it.

I'm in the US and in a state that requires collection of sales tax at the county level. That's county, not country, just to be clear. Each county might have multiple different tax zones. It's a mess.

In Magento 2, I can handle this by creating a different tax zones based on zip code, zip code range, or state-wide. It looks like for now Vendure only handles country-wide rates. That pretty much makes it a no go for any store based in the US. Even if you are not in a state like mine that has arcane county-level collection requirements, you would at least need to be able to enter state-by-state rates.

Is there any workaround for this? If not, is it by chance on the roadmap to provide more options around setting tax rates?

Thanks!

[michaelbromley]

Hi!

So the default setup of taxes is indeed at the country level in Vendure, which is suitable in the EU where we are based. But I am aware that the US has an ... interesting ... tax regime 😅. So for that reason we have the concept of the TaxLineCalculationStrategy - this is the logic that determines the sales tax applicable on a given order line. The default strategy indeed uses the built-in zone-based tax rates (here's the super simple implementation), but you can pretty much use any kind of logic you need in your own strategies. For instance, you could create a plugin which defines a custom entity to hold tax data by zip code area, and use that as a lookup in your own custom strategy.

Longer-term, there are some ideas around making the zone system more granular to support arbitrary definition of Provinces.

I hope that helps, and if you have any more questions, I invite you to join our Slack group where you usually get pretty quick answers.