Apply Tax on Another Tax or Charge

Consider a prospect wants to apply tax on a tax. Let's take an example tax (NBT) is to be applied on the net total amount of items and then apply another tax (VAT) on it. In the below example, tax NBT 2% is to be applied on sum of value of items, and then tax VAT 15%.


In ERPNext, to map this in Sales Order/Invoice in Sales Taxes and Charges table:
  1. Select type of tax as On Net Total
  2. Select or add new tax as NBT and set rate at 2%.
  3. Then add a new row and select type of tax as On Previous Row Total and select or add new tax as VAT and set rate at 15%.


Expand the 2nd row and add the Reference Row # to 1.


Once you save the document and see the print preview, it will look like the following.

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