GST

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Setting up GST (Goods and Services Tax) for Australia

If your online shop is in Australia and you wish to display your products with GST included in the price, charge Australian customers GST and subtract GST from the cost for all customers outside of Australia, this is how you do it:

Setting up the online shop

Here are the steps you need to take to setup the online shop:

1. Create a product and shipping options (without GST included in the cost)
2. In the online shop enable State tax codes by changing {tag_shippingoptions} in the shopping cart to {tag_shippingoptions,true}
3. Go to eCommerce -> Tax Codes and add all AU States (e.g. NSW, VIC, NT, ACT, etc) with 10% Tax Rate

Checking the setup

Here are the steps you can take to make sure that everything works as it should:

1. Go to the online shop add a product to cart (assuming using AU URL) and go to checkout
2. Choose shipping option, which will also be inclusive of GST.
3. Now you will see a product + shipping and it's all inclusive of GST.
4. Choose a country other then Australia as destination country, GST is gone from Product or Shipping
5. Choose AU again as destination country, now you are forced to choose a state from the other drop down since we have defined these. 10% tax should get added.