If you are running a store regardless whether it is online or an outlet, you need to deal with taxes. With ViArt Shop it is possible to set up individual tax rates for each country.

Please go to Administration > Sales Orders > Sales Tax Rates

On this page you can see the full list of countries of which you can set individual taxes for. For your convenience you can sort it by ID number, alphabetically (by country or state) and by tax percent (click the up and down arrows next to the corresponding column name). You can also add a new tax by clicking the 'Add New Tax' link at the foot of the page. In order to edit a tax click the corresponding 'Edit Tax' link.

• Tax Name Will be shown to your customers at checkout
• State Is used in the event you have set taxes for USA, and state distinction is required
• Country Specifies the country the tax is set for

Note: The country list (as well as the state list) is defined within the 'Static Tables' section. For more information about static tables see section 12.3.


• Tax Percent (%) Sets the tax value; please enter only digits separated with dots, e.g. 17.5 and not 17.5 %

Here are a few more things we advise you to keep in mind when setting up taxes:

• You can only set up one tax per country, the only exeption is USA whereby different states can be taken into account.
• By default, the tax value of the default country is added to the total order cost. You can specify the default country at Administration > System > Global Settings (see section 3.1).
• If you do not wish to add taxes to your customers' orders,you need to set your default country tax to 0 or delete it altogether (the difference is whether it will be shown at checkout or not).
• If you have different tax values assigned to different countries and a customer placing an order is not from the default country, the tax of the country the customer is from will be added. In other words the customer country tax has the priority over the default one.

From version 3.0 ViArt offers you the possibility to set a tax value per product type. This value will overwrite the base tax. For this go to Admin > Orders > Tax Rates > Edit Tax and specify the tax for each product type.

There are four default product types in the ViArt Shopping cart: Product, Accessory, Gift Voucher and Bundle.

You may also need to set a tax value to your own product type. For this you have to add a new product type going to: Admin > Products > Products Types > New Product Type ( for more information on editing of the product types see section 5.3.2.1 ). When your product type is added you can set an appropriate tax value in the Tax settings.