Item Tax Codes
Learn to use the AvaTax API to set up tax codes for any item that your company sells.
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Tax codes reference the set of rules and regulations that define how a particular item is to be taxed. We provide a tax code and the corresponding item code when recording a transaction in Avalara. Avalara calculates the tax for the recorded transaction based on these two codes.
The {{BASE_URL}}/companies/{{companyId}}/taxcodes/
endpoint in Avalara helps us create these tax codes. We can also use pre-defined tax codes available in Avalara to calculate the tax for an item correctly according to the jurisdictions the item falls in. Here’s a list of some of these tax codes:
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