Customizing Tax

Broadleaf Commerce can be configured for tax calculation in a number of ways. You can use the simple tax calculator, one of our included third party tax modules (such as CyberSource), or by using a creating a custom tax module.

In this tutorial we will configure the Simple Tax Module for our example company, 'Acme Co' for tax calculation.

Prerequisites

• Broadleaf's Tax Strategy
• Broadleaf's Simple Tax Module

Acme Co Tax Requirements

Acme Co has three physical retail locations in the United States: Los Angeles, California, Austin, Texas, and New York City, New York. Each state has its own sales tax rate.

The table below details the locations and their sales tax rate:

Configuring the Simple Tax Module

To customize the simple tax module, simply declare the bean within your applicationContext xml with an id of blTaxModule. This overrides Broadleaf's out-of-the-box configuration for tax calculation.

Specifying a rate by state will suffice for our needs. Therefore, the property we need to customize in this bean is the itemStateTaxRateMap. For additional properties and their descriptions, see more in the Simple Tax Module docs.

Here is the complete snippet:

<bean id="blTaxModule" class="org.broadleafcommerce.core.pricing.service.module.SimpleTaxModule">
  <property name="itemStateTaxRateMap">
    <map>
      <entry key="CA" value=".0875" />
      <entry key="TX" value=".0825" />
      <entry key="NY" value=".08875" />
    </map>
  </property>
</bean>

The changes should take effect on the next server startup. That's it!