After upgrading to 2.2.8 we have noticed that configurable products that have only have one configurable attribute display a price increase in the dropdown of the tax amount. This seems to be only affecting stores when prices are entered excluding tax and configurable products with only one configurable attribute.
Magento 2.2.6 (Correct)

Magento 2.2.8 (Incorrect)

In this example, each simple product was added into Magento with a price of £150 and a special price of £122.49. The tax settings then add on an additional £24.50 (20% VAT).
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Yes I can and just have replicated this on a vanilla instance of Magento 2.2.8 with sample data.

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Hi @danielpfarmer thank you for you report, this is expected behavior introduced in -> https://github.com/magento/magento2/pull/17695
@engcom-backlog-nazar: closing this makes no sense, since this ticket is about seeing the taxes in the dropdown. This might be a regression introduced by #17695.
@hostep ok, the core issue that
EXCLUDING TAX (Stores > Configuration > Sales > Tax > Calculation Settings > Catalog Prices (Excluding Tax)
does not affect in prices of dropdown attribute ?
@engcom-backlog-nazar: not sure, haven't looked into the details yet, just reopened the issue because it looked like it was closed for the wrong reason.
Maybe @danielpfarmer can answer your question.
Hey @hostep @engcom-backlog-nazar
Yes this affects stores which have their prices inserted in the backend excluding tax, and then display prices including tax. Tax is added using the tax rules.
The problem:
Magento displays the product price including tax on the pdp.
The dropdown then shows a price increase, in this case of £24.50, which shouldnt be there as it is the product tax amount and is already included as part of the product price already displayed on the pdp.
This would make the customer think that the price is £146.99 + £24.50 (£171.49) when it isn't. It is only £146.99 in total.
Cheers
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Hi @danielpfarmer. Thank you for your report.
The issue has been fixed in magento/magento2#22466 by @danielpfarmer in 2.3-develop branch
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The fix will be available with the upcoming 2.3.2 release.
Hi @danielpfarmer. Thank you for your report.
The issue has been fixed in magento/magento2#22535 by @amol2jcommerce in 2.2-develop branch
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The fix will be available with the upcoming 2.2.9 release.
This was not included in the 2.2.9 release.
Good point @Naitaes. Sometimes the version mentioned in those automated comments is not correct unfortunately.
However it looks like it got included in Magento 2.2.10: https://github.com/magento/magento2/blob/2.2.10/app/code/Magento/ConfigurableProduct/view/frontend/web/js/configurable.js#L376
I am having the same issue in Magento ver. 2.2.2. Is there any quick tip to fix this in v2.2.2 instead updating the whole magento version?
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Hey @hostep @engcom-backlog-nazar
Yes this affects stores which have their prices inserted in the backend excluding tax, and then display prices including tax. Tax is added using the tax rules.
The problem:
Magento displays the product price including tax on the pdp.
The dropdown then shows a price increase, in this case of £24.50, which shouldnt be there as it is the product tax amount and is already included as part of the product price already displayed on the pdp.
This would make the customer think that the price is £146.99 + £24.50 (£171.49) when it isn't. It is only £146.99 in total.
Cheers