Discover how to configure WooCommerce to apply a specific tax rate to a product category, with a little bit of code.
Although you can apply a tax rate to each product created with WooCommerce, sometimes it can be more convenient to assign the tax rate according to the product category.
Are you interested in this solution? Here’s how to do it:
Code to always apply the same tax rate to a WooCommerce product category
Add the following code at the end of functions.php or in your functionality plugin:
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This code hooks into the woocommerce_update_product action, which fires every time a product is updated in your store. In the example, it checks if the product belongs to the category with ID 393 and if its tax class is not already ‘zero-rate’. If those conditions are met, it changes the product’s tax class to ‘zero-rate’.
Of course, you can change the category ID (you can check the ID of a category if you go to edit it and check the URL) and the tax class to the one you want. But remember to configure these taxes in WooCommerce settings beforehand.
Conclusion
As you can see, with a few lines of code you can force a tax rate to a specific product category in WooCommerce.
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