Find a WooCommerce Tax Plugin to Improve Your Store

Last Updated February 20th, 2023

Managing taxes is always a headache for e-commerce site owners. There are so many individual rules and regulations that it can be difficult to handle them yourself. Unfortunately, WooCommerce doesn’t come with a lot of tax features. This is a shame because it is one of the largest pieces of store software around. Thankfully, because WooCommerce is built on top of WordPress, that developer community has come to the rescue. You can find a WooCommerce tax plugin to help you handle these issues in a much easier way. Let’s take a look at some of the best plugin options available today to help you handle processing and dealing with the tax on your online store.

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Our Popular WordPress Taxes Plugin List

Each WooCommerce tax plugin we are about to feature is available for free at WordPress.org. You can download them from the site and upload them to install. Or, if you prefer, you can install and activate them directly inside the WordPress admin.

Of course, since this is WooCommerce, not everything is always 100% free. Some of these plugins offer premium versions with additional features. Or, in some cases, the plugin only works with an account at a third-party service. We’ve done our best to make these situations clear for each plugin to avoid confusion.

WooCommerce Shipping & Tax

WooCommerce Shipping & Tax helps take the burden and weight off of your WooCommerce site’s infrastructure by handling your critical services for you. This is a plugin developed directly by the maintainers of WooCommerce to try and make your life easier. Its focus is two-fold. First, the plugin will automatically fill the admin with tax rates. You’ll no longer have to enter or maintain that information manually anymore. Second, and not tax-related, this plugin also has a lot of features to help you handle shipping. You can use it to print shipping labels for USPS and DHL. This is a great plugin for every WooCommerce user to install and use.

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TaxJar for WooCommerce

The official TaxJar plugin eases the process of sales tax calculations, reports, and filing for your WooCommerce store. The plugin takes care of all your sales tax needs. All you need to do is to connect it directly with your WooCommerce store to get it up and running quickly. TaxJar does automatic filing so your returns are submitted to your registered states. This plugin makes sure you don’t miss due dates.

Tax filings are jurisdiction level and sales data are organized into easy-to-read state reports. Uptime is 99.99% so you can count on it for tax calculations. There will be no impact on site performance and load times. You may also import your sales data to see whether your sales have met or exceeded the economic threshold in every state.

Onboarding is quick and support is award-winning. You can still get your sales tax data altogether even if you sell on other places beyond WooCommerce. An important note is that the plugin requires a working TaxJar account and it uses order-based pricing.

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Simple Sales Tax

Simple Sales Tax is a WooCommerce tax plugin that, together with TaxCloud, helps automate sales tax calculations, reporting, and filing. Sales tax is calculated in real-time for all states, counties, cities, and special jurisdictions within the United States. Rates are adjusted and updated appropriately.

You can save time with their advanced report and the ability to optionally enable tax exemptions. The plugin also assists with collecting certificates from applicable customers. Exemptions may also apply to products by assigning a Taxability Information code to each of them.

The plugin supports popular WooCommerce marketplace plugins, such as Dokan, WCFM, Marketplace, and WC Vendors. It handles and calculates sales tax for recurring payments. Finally, it supports multi-destination shipments as well.

Something to note is that the plugin by default is not free. TaxCloud claims affordable and competitive pricing for the quality of service they provide. 

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WooCommerce Quaderno

WooCommerce Quaderno is a WooCommercet tax plugin that helps simplify your business by automatically calculating the tax on every sale. This plugin can follow up with tax-compliant receipts and credit notes regardless of the customer’s location. You can be assured that transactions and invoices are in line with WooCommerce’s tax rules including US, EU VAT, Canadian GST, and tax laws in countries around the world.

Whenever you become liable for taxes, you’ll be notified whether it’s surpassing tax registration or the US economic nexus threshold, or when a tax rate changes. With the tax reports, you will get all the information you need for your tax returns. Automatic receipts and credit notes are also sent with every order in multiple languages and currencies. Even your customers can download receipts and credit notes directly from the orders page. With an easy-to-use dashboard, you can manage and organize all your revenue sources and business data in one place.

As with similar third-party-powered plugins on our list, you’ll need a working and valid account with Quaderno in order to make this plugin work.

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WooCommerce EU VAT Rates for Digital Goods Sync

WooCommerce EU VAT Rates for Digital Goods Sync (what a mouthful) is the final WooCommerce tax plugin on our list. This plugin syncs and applies EU VAT rates for certain items in your WooCommerce store. It specializes in tax classes specifically for digital goods and eBooks. It will compile rates from EU documentation applied in member states. Unfortunately, the developers of this plugin provide a caveat. They note that, as things change, the accuracy of its data cannot be guaranteed completely. So use this plugin at your own risk.

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Find the Best WooCommerce Tax Plugin

So there you have it. That’s our look at some of your best options when picking a WooCommerce tax plugin. Managing taxes is so annoying that it would be foolish to go it alone without help. Thankfully, these plugins offer a lot of great tax-related features for you to use.

While researching, make sure you understand the requirements of each plugin. For example, the TaxJar plugin requires a valid account with their service to work. It’s important to keep issues like that in your mind when making a choice. You might not always want to become beholden to a third party to keep your online store functional.

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