Woocommerce-services: Taxes for specific products

[jobthomas]

Hi there, I've got a question based on 2951723-zen and our docs aren't clear on this.

• Question: How can I set up different taxes per product category?
• They haven't clarified where they are yet, but I did find this example of NY taxes: https://blog.taxjar.com/the-new-york-clothing-sales-tax-exemption-demystified/

New York state doesn’t require state sales tax (4%) on clothing items sold for under $110
Some counties also exempt clothing under $110 from local tax rates
Some counties do NOT exempt clothing under $110 from local tax rates. In this scenarios, you may find yourself not charging New York’s 4% sales tax rate, but charging local rates
In a few counties, local rates also include New York’s 0.375% Metro Commuter Transportation District (MCTD) tax
Clothing sold for $110 or over is always fully taxable in New York
New York is a destination-based sales tax state, so if you sell online you’d always charge the sales tax rate at your buyer’s location
You can read more about the New York clothing sales tax exemption in this publication.
If you run a shopping cart or marketplace, the TaxJar API can take care of this complexity for you.

So it seems that the TJ API allows for this case, but I don't really see a way to add this specific tax code 20010 to the products: https://developers.taxjar.com/api/guides/#product-exemptions

Is this a feature request? Something that won't get attention? Or something that is possible but not available in our docs?

[GeoJunkie]

After a discussion with @harriswong in p1589989244110000-slack-CTYKKGC1Y , we determined that these product-based tax rates will work with WCS by passing the tax code to TJ, so if a tax class of Clothing-20010 is created, that will be passed along.

The user in 2951723-zen is still seeing taxes charged, so we are troubleshooting that.

[GeoJunkie]

We were able to get the taxes working properly. The tax class must not have spaces before and after the dash, so Clothing–20010 works but Clothing – 20010 doesn't. I'll open a new issue for that, since its functionality should parallel TJ (which has the spaces)

[jobthomas]

@GeoJunkie would it be possible to add these instructions to the automated taxes doc?