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Tax calculations not working for paypal subscription

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Tips and Tricks HQ Support Portal › Forums › WP eStore Forum › WP eStore Troubleshooting › Tax calculations not working for paypal subscription

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  • February 23, 2012 at 10:55 pm #5630
    studioc5
    Member

    Im selling subscriptions with wp estore. Im using paypal so the instant you click on the subscribe button it takes you to paypal.

    I need to charge tax for the purchases in my state. I have the regional tax rates set up in paypal and activated. The tax is not being charged. I tried activating the wp estore tax rate and I tried it without activating it. I didnt see any option in the admin to make paypal charge tax. I assumed that paypal would charge it automatically but they are not… Any ideas what could be wrong.

    February 24, 2012 at 3:38 am #42265
    admin
    Keymaster

    PayPal doesn’t support sales tax with subscription/recurring payment. You can price your subscription item price so it has the tax included in it. Then in the product description, you can mention that the price includes tax/vat.

    October 27, 2015 at 11:05 pm #42266
    Frank
    Member

    Question Admin, is this still relevant? Does paypal still not support tax on subscriptions?

    October 28, 2015 at 12:31 am #42267
    admin
    Keymaster

    I haven’t heard any other news about it. If they have changed it then let me know and I will look into it.

    October 30, 2015 at 6:34 pm #42268
    Frank
    Member

    Ok, seems that Paypal says yes they do taxes on subscriptions and it seems to work on buttons built in paypal. But not with wp-estore. I can only guess, some field is missing to activate the feature to use tax tables setup in paypal.

    Frank

    October 30, 2015 at 11:32 pm #42269
    admin
    Keymaster

    Ask them if it can be used with the following standard PayPal API. There are some example button codes there which doesn’t work with “tax” variable:

    https://developer.paypal.com/webapps/developer/docs/classic/paypal-payments-standard/integration-guide/subscribe_buttons/#id08ADFJ0401I

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