As an eCommerce merchant, life can get a bit hectic, and tax zones can complicate things. Not only are there complicated Country and State Tax laws (for US merchants), but depending on your product and location, you may have to take a bunch of different things into account.

Your eCommerce platform better be reliable and able to handle your needs. WooCommerce for WordPress has some very simple ways of handling taxes and tax returns.

This video shows you to how to:

1. Automate your store tax set up by using a plug-in by Jetpack - https://woocommerce.com/products/tax/

2. Automate your tax return with a state-by-state breakdown using a plug-in by TaxJar - https://woocommerce.com/products/taxjar/ for WooCommerce.

Paul Hickey, Founder / CEO / Lead Strategist at Data Driven Design, LLC and founder of The Voice Event, and The Voice Designer, has created and grown businesses via digital strategy and internet marketing for more than 15 years. His sweet spot is using analytics to design and build websites and grow the audience and revenue of businesses via SEO/Blogging, Google Adwords, Bing Ads, Facebook and Instagram Ads, Social Media Content Marketing, Email Marketing and most recently, Voice App Design and Development – Alexa Skills and Google Actions. The part that he’s most passionate about is quantifying next marketing actions based on real data.