Question about charging tax

[dollyrock]

How do I make it where people that live in my state are charged tax? and those that dont are not?

[snowshoe]

Very easy assuming you know your State's Tax requirements, each state is different.

Login to your PayPal Account

Select Profile

Select My Selling Tools

Under Selling Online

Look for Sales Tax    Set up sales taxes for multiple regions

Click on Update

Click on Add Another Sales Tax

Select your State

Apply your Rate in %

If your state taxes shipping, you need to check the box

If you have different rates within your state, you also apply specific rates by Zip Code.

For example, I have both a State rate which is 2.9% and the town where I reside rate which is 8.257%.  The town rate is by Zip Code.

When you're  done, Save.

[dollyrock]

Ok, let me ask deeper. I have two different websites. I only need to charge tax to residents of my state for the products on ONE of the websites, but not the other. How do I make it do that?

[snowshoe]

What's stopping folks from using one site over the other? 

However, you can use the the "tax" override variable with a value set = "0".    If you're using hosted item button code, in Step 3 of the button creation process look at the bottom you will see "Advanced Variables".   Note the text box near the bottom of the page.

There you can insert extra variables.
Insert the "tax" variable and value:
tax=0
There's no HTML extras, just the name of the variable, an equal sign and the value.

If you manually created the item button code, then insert the following line:

<input type="hidden" name="tax" value="0">

Additional notes:

Transaction-based tax override variable. Set this variable to a flat tax amount to apply to the payment regardless of the

buyer’s location. This value overrides any tax settings set in your account profile. Valid only for Buy Now and Add to

Cart buttons. Default – Profile tax settings, if any, apply.