## Assigning a Tax Zone

You can set different tax rates that can be applied automatically to orders total depending on the customers' country of origin (buyer's tax zone) indicated in his (or her) Account profile.

In general, taxation in Parallels Business Automation - Standard is a system-wide setting that affects Provider (or Reseller) accounting in general. You can create several tax rates, then add several tax zones (each including the specific combination of tax rates). After this, taxes will be calculated in accordance with the buyer's country indicated in his (or her) account profile.

However, if needed, you can assign the individual tax zone to accounts. To this effect, open the account details and edit its General Settings.

Note: You can create the default Tax Zone to define the tax rate for any of the countries you did not created the special Tax Zone.

You can enter your own VAT Number (if you have such) and enable (or disable) the tax exemption depending on your needs.

Your customers can enter their own VAT Number either from the Control Panel or during account creation in your HSPstore. In addition, you can enter the VAT Number for your customers (Account profile -> Financial Info tab).

To make accounting more secure you can set the manual approval mode for VAT Number and address. Three statuses can be assigned to a customer address or VAT Number:

- "Not Checked" status is assigned by default to customer's address and VAT Number. In this case, if you have set taxation to secure mode, transaction is not allowed.
- "Approved" status allows transaction and further processing of customer's order.
- "Rejected" status forbids order processing.

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