{"id":1119,"date":"2012-01-23T14:12:09","date_gmt":"2012-01-23T14:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/2012\/01\/23\/introduction-to-taxes-in-opencart\/"},"modified":"2012-01-23T14:12:09","modified_gmt":"2012-01-23T14:12:09","slug":"introduction-to-taxes-in-opencart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/edu\/opencart\/introduction-to-taxes-in-opencart\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction to Taxes in OpenCart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taxes can be an important aspect of your OpenCart shopping cart. Depending on the laws where you operate your business it may be necessary to charge some or all of your customers tax. It\u2019s important to understand how taxes work in OpenCart.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Geo Zone<\/strong>: a geographical region to specify in OpenCart \u2013 This can be a multiple states or entire countries<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tax Class<\/strong>: This is a type of product to apply a tax rate to and can be based on shipping address, payment address, or store address<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tax Rate<\/strong>: This is the actual rate of tax to be applied to a specific Geo Zone<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Each product you set up is assigned to a tax class. This tax class is defined by a tax rate assigned to it. Each tax rate then has a geo zone assigned to it.<\/p>\n<p>If you need further assistance please feel free to <a ferh=\"\/support\/community-support\/\">ask a question in our support center website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taxes can be an important aspect of your OpenCart shopping cart. 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Geo Zone: a geographical region to specify in OpenCart \u2013 This can be<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/edu\/opencart\/introduction-to-taxes-in-opencart\/\"> Read More ><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56983,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opencart"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Introduction to Taxes in OpenCart | InMotion Hosting<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In this article, we&#039;ll explain the basics of working with taxes in OpenCart.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, 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