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title: "Taxes"
description: "Every product line the shop sells carries a tax rate."
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# Taxes

Every product line the shop sells carries a tax rate. **At the till, Beelocity works it out for
you**: the register resolves each line's rate through the product's tax class, at the rate in
force on the day of the sale — nothing is keyed by hand at the counter. On sales documents built
back-office — quotations, orders, invoices, credit notes — the rate is still entered on the line
when you add it, so check it there the way you check the price.

## The three classes you start with

Every organization begins with the Algerian VAT set, under **Inventory → Tax Classes**:

| Class                     | Rate  | Use it for                                                        |
| ------------------------- | ----- | ----------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **TVA 19 % (standard rate)** | 19 %  | Most goods and services — the default                             |
| **TVA 9 % (reduced rate)** | 9 %   | The essentials list: certain foodstuffs, pharmaceuticals, and the other reduced-rate categories |
| **Exempt**                   | 0 %   | Exempt goods: subsidized staples (bread, milk, semolina), exports |

A product with no class of its own follows the **default class** — TVA 19 % out of the box — so
everything sells at the standard rate until you say otherwise. To sell milk at 0 % or medicine
at 9 %, open the product and pick the class on its form; the till picks the change up
immediately.

## When a rate changes

Rates are **dated**. When a finance law changes a rate, do not edit the old one: close its
window (set its end date) and add a new rate from the day the law applies. Sales from before
the change keep their old rate on record — every ticket and invoice line remembers the rate it
was actually charged with — and new sales use the new one automatically from the effective day.

Two rates of one class can never cover the same day; Beelocity refuses the save rather than
guess which one you meant.

## What shows where

- The **Tax Classes** page can be narrowed with the filter button to the **Default** class or to
  **Active** / retired ones (see
  [Working with lists](../getting-started/working-with-lists.html#narrowing-the-list)).
- Each class's **Rates** tab holds its whole history, newest first.
- The product form shows the class (blank = default), with a link to it.
- Every ticket line, order line and invoice line prints the rate and the tax amount it was
  charged with — the record of what was collected, ready for a VAT declaration by rate and
  period.

Source: https://docs.beelocity.com/en/products/taxes/index.mdx