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How to Calculate Tax or VAT with Gravity Forms

Add tax to your Gravity Forms' submissions in 5 minutes or less.

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Overview

GF eCommerce Field offers several powerful new field types. For this tutorial, we’ll be working with the Tax field. The Tax field allows you to automatically calculate a percentage-based tax that will be applied to the order total.

Step 1 Install & Activate GF eCommerce Fields

Let’s get started by installing and activating the GF eCommerce Fields plugin.

Step 2 Add a Tax Field to Your Form

Next, let’s add a Tax field to your form. You will find the Tax field button under the “Pricing Fields” field group on the right side of the form editor.

Multiple Tax Fields
You can add as many Tax fields as you require. You can have all Tax fields apply to each order – or – you can use conditional logic to apply a specific Tax field dependent on any number of conditions.

Step 3 Configure the Tax Amount

It’s time to specify the tax amount. Specify any number 1 – 100. This will be the percentage used to calculate the tax amount.

Apply To or Exclude From Specific Products
You can optionally apply the tax to specific products – or – exclude specific products from being included in the tax. Just select the desired option from the “Applicable Products” setting and specify the products to include/exclude.

Preview the Form

And we’re done! Preview your form to see your Tax field in action. Here’s an example from our full documentation for GF eCommerce Fields.

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Comments

    • Dario Space says

      Hi Ken,

      We’ve already followed up via email. We have a snippet that lets you set a dynamic tax based on another field value.

      Cheers,

  2. Christiane Smith says

    HI there,

    I tried to use the ecommerce perk to calculate tax, but it doesnt work for antiques, collectibles or second hand merchandise which charges VAT only on the gross margin (and should not show the line item). Currently trying to configure a workaround using product add ons instead. Do you have any suggestions? Thanks, Chris

    Reply

    • Samuel Bassah says

      Hi Christiane,

      I’ve replied to your comment via email to request for more information. Please check and reply.

      Best,

  3. James Craig says

    Hi, It would be nicer to have a radio box in the product that it is taxable. At the end, just tax the tabulation of items that are taxable that have been included in the sub-total. We had a tax change and it is a PITA for changing it as each product tax needs to be changed. Thanks in advance, James (swyc.ca)

    Reply

    • Samuel Bassah says

      Hi James,

      I’m not really tracking your question very well, but if what you’re looking for is to be able to select the products that should be taxable, then you can do that within the Tax field setting. However, if what you want is to include the tax amount as part of the product then unfortunately this is currently not possible. However, if I have misunderstood your question, then you can get in touch with us via our support form if you have an active Gravity Perks License.

      Best,

  4. Leon says

    You guys really need to make an option to add tax as a percentage of total amount. Tax added to a product price rather than included is really not a standard thing on the web.

    Reply

    • Samuel Bassah says

      Hi Leon,

      Currently, the tax can be added as a percentage of the total amount or a product price. We have plans to add support including VAT as part of the product price. I’ve added your vote for this feature to push it up the priority list.

      Best,

  5. Mike says

    HI there, I have the same requirement that James does above. Basically I need to calculate tax as a percentage of the total amount, rather than add it on. Are you please able to email me the solution as well. Thanks! Mike

    Reply

    • Scott Buchmann says

      Hi Mike,

      I’ve added your vote for this feature. No ETA, however it’s on our roadmap.

  6. Michael Meadow says

    Is there a way to apply a tax specific to the locale of the user? For instance, digital products in the US are now required to have applicable state taxes for where the user is located to every purchase. Selling internationally requires a different tax rate in each country.

    Is there an automated way to apply the tax to the purchase amount based on the location a user selects from the location dropdown? Our company needs to be tax compliant by adhering to all local tax rates to be able to depend on and purchase this addon.

    Reply

    • David Smith says

      We do not currently have an automated solution for this. It’s possible using conditional logic but we know it’s a bit cumbersome. Definitely something we’d like to look into for inclusion in a future version!

  7. Sebastian Frankenberger says

    Hi David,

    I need exactly the same like James Carmody. Products with Tax included and at the end a tax field showing how much tax is included. Thx

    Sebastian

    Reply

    • David Smith says

      Thanks for the feedback, Sebastian. I’ve added your vote for this feature. No ETA but it’s on our roadmap.

    • David Smith says

      Hi James, shipping is not available for inclusion in taxes. Do you have some information on why/where this is required?

    • James Carmody says

      I actually thought shipping was already included which is a requirement for Australia. My question was worded badly, I was actually trying to ask if the Tax can be set to display the inclusive amount rather than adding tax to the tax exclusive subtotal.

      E.g. if I have a $100 product and then add 10% tax it becomes $110 but if I wanted a $100 product inclusive of tax it should display the total as $100 but then show $9.09 of tax. I have tried setting the product itself to the exclusive amount of $90.91 which works. However in Australia we legally have to show prices inclusive of tax so as a workaround I put the tax inclusive price in the description. Thanks!

    • David Smith says

      Hey James, that was bad info. Shipping is included in taxes. I’m not quite tracking on your explanation of what you have set up. You show the price inclusive of tax for the individual products but then have to list the full tax amount (even that already included in the products) as a separate line item?

    • James Carmody says

      Yeah that is essentially correct. We show all the product prices including tax and then show a break down of how much tax was paid for the customers reference. This is usually shown as a seperate line item on all receipts and invoices in Australia.

  9. Howard Ohori says

    Hi David,

    I tried doing this calculation and got it to work but my notification email summary is totally incorrect. Will your solution help me get this sub total, tax order total correct for the form and the notification? (I am using the auto-format feature in GF as my html sucks)

    Reply

  10. Brian Asquith says

    I am having an issue where this plugin is calculating a tax higher than it should be. For example, I have a 339.00 product. The tax on it is 13%. The amount should be 43.07; however, the plugin calculates it as 44.22

    Reply

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