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Tax rates

Saved tax-rateTax rateA saved tax-rate record you can attach to suppliers and POs. Three types — sales, purchase, and shipping. Configured in Settings → Tax Rates. Read more → records you attach to suppliers and POs. Two types are currently active in the UI — sales and purchase. POs use purchase-type rates.

  • Where they’re used
  • Creating a rate
  • Per-PO assignment
  • Importing rates from your accounting system
  • What’s not yet supported
  • See also

Purchase-type rates appear in the PO header’s tax-rate dropdown. Sales-type rates are saved for future use elsewhere in the app.

Settings → Tax Rates → “New rate.” Pick the type (Sales or Purchase), enter the percentage, and name it.

POs inherit the supplier’s default tax rate. You can override it on the PO header.

Importing rates from your accounting system

Section titled “Importing rates from your accounting system”

Once Settings → Accounting is connected, an Import from Xero button appears next to “Add Tax Rate.” It opens a dialog that creates Logistified tax rates from your Xero tax rates, pre-mapped so pushed bills use the exact tax type.

Pick whether to import them as Purchase or Sales rates, tick the ones you want (with “Select all” / “Deselect all” and a running count), and click Import N. Rates already imported show a grey imported badge and can’t be selected again. After the import, a summary lists each rate as Created, Already imported, or Failed.

Once accounting is connected, editing an existing rate also reveals an Accounting tax rate field — a searchable picker to link that Logistified rate to one specific Xero tax rate, with a Clear mapping (auto by rate) option to remove the link. Leave it unmapped and Logistified auto-matches by percentage when pushing a bill. Mapped rates show a small ”→ [Xero tax rate name]” line in the tax rate table; unmapped ones show “Auto (by rate).”

  • Shipping tax rates — defined in the data model but currently hidden in the UI; only sales and purchase rates can be created today.
  • Per-line tax override on POs.
  • Time-bounded tax rates (start / end date).
  • Automatic VAT / GST inference from supplier country.