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Configure taxes

Configure taxes - Shopify Tutorial

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Configure taxes

- [Instructor] Shopify does a great job simplifying things for you the store owner. They have tax professionals that set pretty decent defaults. Shopify automatically collects the taxes for your home location. Most store owners won't need to modify their tax settings. But since this is a legal matter, and this is your store, you need to make sure that everything is set up correctly. So I'm going to show you how to double check your tax settings, even though for most stores, you're going to be totally fine with the defaults. We're going to go to Settings, and then Taxes. And here we can see, we are collecting taxes in the U.S., but not collecting it for the rest of the world. We can also see a check box, for showing all prices with tax included. This is pretty common in Europe, but not common in the U.S. There's also check boxes for charging tax on shipping rates, and charging VAT on digital goods. If you sell digital…

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