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UK VAT – Simple Approach

This post describes the basics for setting up VAT. It’s not trying to be fancy – just plain VAT for UK marketplace on Magento.

Firstly lets set up the tax zones and rates:

  • Goto Sales->Tax->Manage Tax Zones & Rates
  • Delete US rules
  • Add new rule with tax id of VAT, Country of UK, Rate of 15
  • Goto Sales->Tax->Manage Tax Rules
  • Amend retail customer to use customer tax class retail customer, product tax class taxable goods, and tax rate VAT

Now let’s apply these to the products and shipping:

Goto System->Configuration->Tax

Use the example here to setup your VAT – you can amend as necessary to reduce the output.

UK Tax Rate Example

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One Response to “UK VAT – Simple Approach”

  • zee Says:
    May 19th, 2009 at 7:09 pm

    Brilliant – i was looking for an easy setup guide for VAT implementation and this was it. Have book marked the page.

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