[Skip to main content](#vessel-content) # Import tax rates and rules ## - **[ShepherdsStream](/forum/user/82405-shepherdsstream "View ShepherdsStream's Profile")** - [![ShepherdsStream's Avatar](https://www.hikashop.com/media/kunena/core/svg/person.svg)](/forum/user/82405-shepherdsstream "View ShepherdsStream's Profile") Topic Author - [ Offline](/forum/user/82405-shepherdsstream) Less More - Posts: 22 - Thank you received: 2 - - 2 years 4 months ago [\#361552](#361552) by [ShepherdsStream](/forum/user/82405-shepherdsstream "View ShepherdsStream's Profile") *[Import tax rates and rules](/forum/40-taxes/908282-import-tax-rates-and-rules#361552 "-- HikaShop version -- : 5.1.0 -- Joomla version -- : 4.4.5 -- PHP version -- : 8.1 -- Browser(s) name and version -- : Microsoft Edge Version 126.0.2592.56 (Official build) (64-bit) -- Error-message(debug-mod must be tuned on) -- : no error message Greetings, I am wanting to import my tax rates and rules. I don't want to pay Tax cloud monthly for something I can create or have created for me. I didn't see anything in the forum about importing tax rates or rules. However, there obviously are tables with the data. I was going to have my dev look at this when he comes online next week. Any thoughts or ideas or if you could point me in the right direction that would be very cool. I also use Hikamarket...thanks")* was created by *[ShepherdsStream](/forum/user/82405-shepherdsstream "View ShepherdsStream's Profile")* -- HikaShop version -- : 5.1.0 -- Joomla version -- : 4.4.5 -- PHP version -- : 8.1 -- Browser(s) name and version -- : Microsoft Edge Version 126.0.2592.56 (Official build) (64-bit) -- Error-message(debug-mod must be tuned on) -- : no error message Greetings, I am wanting to import my tax rates and rules. I don't want to pay Tax cloud monthly for something I can create or have created for me. I didn't see anything in the forum about importing tax rates or rules. However, there obviously are tables with the data. I was going to have my dev look at this when he comes online next week. Any thoughts or ideas or if you could point me in the right direction that would be very cool. I also use Hikamarket...thanks Please [Log in](/login?return=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaGlrYXNob3AuY29tL2ZvcnVtLzQwLXRheGVzLzkwODI4Mi1pbXBvcnQtdGF4LXJhdGVzLWFuZC1ydWxlcz90bXBsPW1hcmtkb3du) or [Create an account](/register) to join the conversation. - **[nicolas](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile")** - [![nicolas's Avatar](https://www.hikashop.com/media/kunena/avatars/resized/size144/users/avatar63.png?1793428657)](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile") - [ Away](/forum/user/63-nicolas) Less More - Posts: 86323 - Thank you received: 14284 - - 2 years 4 months ago [\#361558](#361558) by [nicolas](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile") Replied by *[nicolas](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile")* on topic *[Import tax rates and rules](/forum/40-taxes/908282-import-tax-rates-and-rules#361558 "-- HikaShop version -- : 5.1.0 -- Joomla version -- : 4.4.5 -- PHP version -- : 8.1 -- Browser(s) name and version -- : Microsoft Edge Version 126.0.2592.56 (Official build) (64-bit) -- Error-message(debug-mod must be tuned on) -- : no error message Greetings, I am wanting to import my tax rates and rules. I don't want to pay Tax cloud monthly for something I can create or have created for me. I didn't see anything in the forum about importing tax rates or rules. However, there obviously are tables with the data. I was going to have my dev look at this when he comes online next week. Any thoughts or ideas or if you could point me in the right direction that would be very cool. I also use Hikamarket...thanks")* Hi, I understand you're from the USA and that your business is located in the state of Washington. From what I can read here ( [ www.avalara.com/taxrates/en/state-rates/...sales-tax-guide.html](https://www.avalara.com/taxrates/en/state-rates/washington/washington-sales-tax-guide.html) ), you apparently have to charge the sales tax based on the location of the customer ( note that I'm not from the USA, and I'm not a specialist of the USA tax system. I would recommend you check what are your obligations in that respect with a professional in that field if that's not already done ). Also, the sales tax can change based on the county, state, etc. This will be difficult to achieve without TaxCloud. Counties don't necessarily match with the post code scheme and you can only restrict sales tax based on the state, coutry and post code in HikaShop. The county is not asked and there is not mechanism to automatically deduce the county from the full address. If you don't want to use TaxCloud and need to support sales tax dynamically calculated by county / state, that would require having a table in the database to store all the sales tax rules, and then the development of a plugin to calculate the county based on the full address by using for example Google Maps' address API, like we do with the geocoding plugin [ www.hikashop.com/marketplace/product/250...shipping-plugin.html](https://www.hikashop.com/marketplace/product/250-address-geocoding-shipping-plugin.html) ), and based on the information you can get from the address, you can then apply the correct sales tax via an additional fee added to the cart (plugins can add extra fees to the cart, like the cart fees plugin does: [ www.hikashop.com/marketplace/product/279-cart-fee.html](https://www.hikashop.com/marketplace/product/279-cart-fee.html) ). Doing this is a big endeavor. And even if you do, you then have to maintain the tax rules table when things change. 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