Taxes — classes and rates

Taxes in CIQRA are organized as tax classes and the VAT rates products are charged at checkout. A class groups products that are taxed the same way; each class holds one or more rates that vary by country and product kind.

Your tax classes

Open Taxes from the Catalog group in the sidebar.

Each class shows its Name, a short Code badge (such as STANDARD or DIGITAL), and how many Rates it contains. Search by name, adjust columns with Columns, or open a class’s ⋯ menu.

Create a tax class

Select New tax class to “name the class, then add its rates once it’s created.” Under Details — “how this tax class is identified” — set:

• Name — for example Standard rate.
• Code — “a unique, uppercase identifier” such as STANDARD.

Select Create tax class. You add rates on the next screen.

Add rates to a class

Opening a class shows Edit tax class, where you “update the class and manage its rates.” The Rates section lists the “VAT rates charged for this class, by place of supply.”

Each rate row shows the Country (with its code, such as DE or FR), the Rate percentage, and what it Applies to — Any product or a kind such as Digital only. Use the pencil to edit a rate, or the trash icon to remove it.

Select Add rate to open the rate dialog — “the VAT rate charged for this class in a given place of supply”:

1. Choose a Country from the list.
2. Enter the Rate as a percentage (for example 19 %).
3. Set Applies to — Any product, or a specific kind.
4. Select Add rate to save it.

Note

As the dialog explains, “a kind-specific rate (physical or digital) wins over an ‘any product’ rate for the same country.” So you can set a general rate for a country and override it for, say, digital goods — the more specific rate applies.

Tip

Group products that share a tax treatment into the same class — a Standard rate class for most goods, a Digital services class for downloads — then assign the right class per product. One rate change then updates every product in that class.

Caution

Delete on the Edit tax class screen removes the whole class and its rates. Removing a single rate uses the trash icon on that rate’s row instead.