Samir Sabri

<p><strong>TaxDebug for WooCommerce</strong> helps store owners debug, understand, trust, and report their taxes – especially when using WooCommerce Tax (automated taxes) or other tax calculation services.</p>
<h4>Key Features</h4>
<p><strong>Deep Tax Visibility</strong><br />
* See exactly how taxes were calculated for every order<br />
* View applied tax rates, line-item breakdowns, and calculation formulas<br />
* Understand which service/plugin produced each tax amount (WooCommerce Core, WooCommerce Tax, TaxJar, Avalara)</p>
<p><strong>Issue Detection Engine</strong><br />
* Automatically detect common tax problems:<br />
  * No tax collected where expected<br />
  * Tax charged in non-taxable regions<br />
  * Rate mismatches vs reference rates<br />
  * Missing local (county/city) taxes<br />
  * Tax changes between cart and checkout<br />
  * Suspected API errors</p>
<p><strong>Beautiful Dashboard & Reports</strong><br />
* Modern, responsive admin interface<br />
* Interactive charts showing tax by state, country, and over time<br />
* KPI cards for total tax, taxable sales, and effective rates<br />
* Powerful filtering by date, country, state, tax source, and more</p>
<p><strong>Order Explorer</strong><br />
* Search and filter all orders with tax data<br />
* View detailed tax debug information for any order<br />
* Identify orders with detected issues quickly</p>
<p><strong>Accountant-Friendly Exports</strong><br />
* Export summary reports by country/state<br />
* Export detailed order-level tax breakdowns<br />
* Export detected issues for review<br />
* CSV format compatible with Excel and accounting software</p>
<p><strong>Safe & Non-Intrusive</strong><br />
* Does NOT modify how taxes are calculated<br />
* Only observes, logs, and analyzes tax data<br />
* Works with any tax calculation method</p>
<p><strong>Feedback & Analytics</strong><br />
* In-app feedback widget to report false positives/negatives<br />
* Feature request and success story submissions<br />
* Privacy-first usage analytics (all data stored locally)<br />
* Deactivation survey to help improve TaxDebug<br />
* All feedback stored locally – no external tracking</p>
<h4>Compatibility</h4>
<p>TaxDebug works with:<br />
* WooCommerce Core tax rates<br />
* WooCommerce Tax (automated taxes via TaxJar)<br />
* TaxJar plugin<br />
* Avalara AvaTax<br />
* Other tax plugins</p>
<h4>Requirements</h4>
<ul>
<li>WordPress 5.8 or higher</li>
<li>WooCommerce 5.0 or higher</li>
<li>PHP 7.4 or higher</li>
</ul>
<h3>Privacy</h3>
<p>TaxDebug stores order tax data locally in your WordPress database. This includes:<br />
* Order IDs and dates<br />
* Customer billing/shipping addresses (country, state, city, postcode only)<br />
* Order totals and tax amounts<br />
* Tax calculation details</p>
<p>TaxDebug does NOT:<br />
* Store payment information<br />
* Store full customer names or personal details beyond address location</p>
<p>Data retention can be configured in Settings. You can also manually clear all logs at any time.</p>
<h4>Feedback Collection</h4>
<p>TaxDebug collects optional feedback to improve the plugin:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>In-app feedback</strong>: Report false positives, false negatives, feature requests, or success stories</li>
<li><strong>Usage analytics</strong>: Anonymous local tracking of which features are used</li>
<li><strong>Deactivation survey</strong>: Optional one-question survey when deactivating</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Local Storage</strong>: All feedback is always stored locally in your WordPress database.</p>
<p><strong>Optional Remote Sending</strong>: You can opt-in to send anonymous feedback to the developer to help improve TaxDebug. This is <strong>disabled by default</strong> and must be explicitly enabled in Settings.</p>
<h4>What IS Sent (When Opted-In)</h4>
<ul>
<li>Anonymous store UUID (random identifier, NOT your domain)</li>
<li>Feedback type and message</li>
<li>Your email (only if you voluntarily provide it)</li>
<li>Store country and currency</li>
<li>Active tax plugin (e.g., TaxJar, Avalara)</li>
<li>Plugin, WordPress, and WooCommerce versions</li>
<li>Daily aggregated counts: orders logged, issues detected, features used</li>
</ul>
<h4>What is NEVER Sent</h4>
<ul>
<li>Your site URL or domain name</li>
<li>Customer names, emails, or addresses</li>
<li>Order details, totals, or line items</li>
<li>Tax amounts or financial data</li>
<li>Any personally identifiable information (PII)</li>
</ul>
<h4>How to Disable Remote Sending</h4>
<p>Go to <strong>WooCommerce <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> TaxDebug <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> Settings</strong> and turn off “Send Anonymous Feedback”. You can do this at any time. Local feedback storage will continue to work.</p>
<h3>Developer Notes</h3>
<h4>Hooks & Filters</h4>
<p>TaxDebug provides several hooks for extensibility:</p>
<p><strong>Actions:</strong><br />
* <code>taxdebug_loaded</code> – Fired when TaxDebug is fully loaded<br />
* <code>taxdebug_order_logged</code> – Fired when an order is logged (params: log_id, order_id, payload)<br />
* <code>taxdebug_installed</code> – Fired on plugin installation<br />
* <code>taxdebug_logs_cleaned_up</code> – Fired when old logs are cleaned up</p>
<p><strong>Filters:</strong><br />
* <code>taxdebug_order_payload</code> – Filter the order payload before logging<br />
* <code>taxdebug_detected_issues</code> – Add custom issue detection rules</p>
<h4>REST API Endpoints</h4>
<p>TaxDebug provides a REST API under the <code>taxdebug/v1</code> namespace:</p>
<ul>
<li><code>GET /logs</code> – Get tax logs with filtering</li>
<li><code>GET /logs/{id}</code> – Get single log</li>
<li><code>GET /logs/order/{order_id}</code> – Get log by order ID</li>
<li><code>POST /logs/reanalyze/{order_id}</code> – Re-analyze an order</li>
<li><code>GET /issues</code> – Get detected issues</li>
<li><code>GET /stats/dashboard</code> – Get dashboard statistics</li>
<li><code>GET /stats/chart/time</code> – Get time series chart data</li>
<li><code>GET /stats/chart/state</code> – Get tax by state data</li>
<li><code>GET /stats/chart/country</code> – Get tax by country data</li>
<li><code>GET /export/summary</code> – Export summary CSV</li>
<li><code>GET /export/detailed</code> – Export detailed CSV</li>
<li><code>GET /export/issues</code> – Export issues CSV</li>
</ul>
<p>All endpoints require <code>manage_woocommerce</code> capability.</p>
<h4>Database Tables</h4>
<p>TaxDebug creates two custom tables:</p>
<ul>
<li><code>{prefix}taxdebug_logs</code> – Stores order tax log data</li>
<li><code>{prefix}taxdebug_issues</code> – Stores detected issues</li>
<li><code>{prefix}taxdebug_feedback</code> – Stores user feedback submissions</li>
<li><code>{prefix}taxdebug_analytics</code> – Stores usage analytics</li>
<li><code>{prefix}taxdebug_error_logs</code> – Stores internal error logs</li>
</ul>
<h4>WP-CLI Commands</h4>
<p>(Coming in future versions)</p>


TaxDebug for WooCommerce

A tax debugging and reporting tool for WooCommerce. Debug tax issues, understand calculations, and generate audit-ready reports.

Freemius

RelyWP

Elliot Sowersby / RelyWP

<p>The customers to declare tax exemption status on WooCommerce checkout, and provide tax / VAT exemption details with this.</p>
<p>This is useful if you have some customers that are eligible to be exempt from tax on your products, for example for the purpose of disability VAT exemption or charity VAT relief.</p>
<h3>Getting Started</h3>
<p>Simply install the “Tax Exemption plugin for WooCommerce” plugin, and visit the “Tax Exemption” settings page under “WooCommerce” in the WordPress admin.</p>
<p>Configure the plugin settings as required:</p>
<ul>
<li>Enable or disable the tax exemption feature.</li>
<li>Select the tax class to use for the Tax / VAT exemption.</li>
<li>Select the location on checkout to display the tax exemption fields.</li>
<li>Enable or disable removal of tax on shipping for exempt customers.</li>
<li>Enable or disable the tax exemption fields on the “My Account” page.</li>
<li>Customise the text/labels used throughout the plugin.</li>
</ul>
<p>Your customers will then be able to select the “I want to claim tax exemption” checkbox on the checkout page, and enter their tax exemption details.</p>
<p>Tax will be removed from their order if this is checked and they have entered their details successfully.</p>
<p>If an order is marked as tax / VAT exempt, this will be shown on the admin order details page, where you can see the tax exempt details.</p>
<h3>PRO Version</h3>
<p>The PRO version offers several additional features including:</p>
<ul>
<li>Custom tax exemption form fields.</li>
<li>Tax exemption certificate upload field.</li>
<li>Tax exemption expiration date field.</li>
<li>Tax exemption city/state field.</li>
<li>Tax exemption fields on registration form.</li>
<li>Exemption status management for admins.</li>
<li>Only allow exemption for approved users.</li>
<li>Hide the tax exemption fields on checkout.</li>
<li>Only remove tax from specific products.</li>
<li>Only allow exemption for logged in users.</li>
<li>Only allow exemption for selected user roles.</li>
<li>Only allow exemption for selected countries.</li>
<li>Only allow exemption for selected states/cities.</li>
<li>Customize the tax class for each user.</li>
<li>Export CSV files of exempt customers.</li>
<li>Export CSV files of exempt orders.</li>
<li>Integration with “AvaTax”.</li>
</ul>
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Tax Exemption for WooCommerce

Tax Exemption plugin for WooCommerce. Allow customers to declare tax / VAT exemption eligibility, and provide tax exemption details.

TaxDebug for WooCommerce vs Tax Exemption for WooCommerce