Taxes in Japan

Setting up taxes for stores based in Japan

Japan useslocation-based taxes, which means that taxes are calculated using your address and your customer's address. You're not required to enter tax registration numbers to charge tax to your customers, but you might need toset tax rates manually.

Enable tax-inclusive prices

In Japan, merchants are required to use tax-inclusive pricing. For new merchants, product prices include tax by default. If you aren't yet selling with tax-inclusive prices, then enable theAll prices include taxsetting in the Shopify admin.

Steps

1. From your Shopify admin, go toSettings>Taxes and duties.
2. CheckAll prices include tax.
3. ClickSave.

After you enable this setting, the prices in your store will include tax. The listed price for a product is the amount that the customer will pay, and the tax portion of the price is calculated using the formulaTax = (Tax Rate X Price) / (1 + Tax Rate). Learn more aboutincluding tax in your product prices.

Change your product prices

If you already have product prices set without tax, and you need to change them to tax-inclusive pricing, then do one of the following:

1. Change your prices manually.
   1. Calculate the price of your products after tax has been added.
   2. Enabletax-inclusive pricesin your Shopify admin.
   3. Change your product prices to the tax-inclusive value. You can usebulk actionsto change all your products at the same time, or update your product prices by uploadinga CSV file of your products.
2. Change your prices using an app for bulk price editing. The suggested app isCustomEdit.

Use CustomEdit

CustomEdit is an app that changes the price of your products by a specific percentage. You can choose to change all your products or selected products, and choose whether you want the changes to take effect immediately or at a set time.

Steps

1. Add theCustomEditapp to your store fromthe app store.
2. In your Shopify admin, go toApps>CustomEdit.
3. In thePrice modificationfield, enter the percentage value that will be applied to your products. This value is set to10%默认情况下。
4. Set the price rounding value. This value indicates how many decimal points the result is rounded to, with0rounding to the nearest dollar amount. This value is set to2默认情况下。
5. Optional: To filter for specific collections to change, clickLoad collection. To filter for specific products, clickLoad items.
6. Check the products you want to change,
7. Do one of the following:
   • To change to all displayed products immediately, clickSave all, and then clickConfirm.
   • To change all displayed products at a later time, clickSave all later, select a date and time, and then clickConfirm.
   • To change specific products immediately, check the products you want to change, clickSave selected, and then clickConfirm.
   • To change specific products at a later time, check the products you want to change, clickSave later, select a date and time, and then clickConfirm.

There might be a delay in updating your products, depending on how many you've selected.