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More options available for sales tax setup

Thursday, April 22, 2010

Ed Note: This continues our series of posts about features that make running your business on Google Checkout even easier.

As the US tax season comes to an end, the Checkout team’s been doing a lot of thinking about taxes too. We’re happy to announce a new feature for sellers in the US that will allow you to simplify the way you calculate and charge sales tax.

You can find our new tax setup page under the Settings tab of your Checkout Merchant Center:














Access to the tax rate database which calculates tax rates based the buyer’s ZIP code is currently limited to US sellers. To learn more about these features, you can view the brief video tutorial below:



Posted by Igor Ginzburg and Andrew Cunningham, Software Engineers