Trying to figure out how tax lines work when creating Shopify order via API

Question

I am posting the following to the Shopify API create order endpoint and receiving a response without tax lines that are filled. I haven't seen anything on the internet on this, other than that Shopify doesn't offer another endpoint for just taxes. So, I am trying to figure out if tax lines are supposed to be generated automatically in the order response when creating an order via the API or if I have to include the tax lines in the request in order for tax lines to be included, because I know when I create an order in the admin the tax lines are automatically calculated and included for me?:

   {
  "order": {
    "email": "[email protected]",
    "financial_status": "paid",
    "fulfillment_status": null,
    "send_receipt": true,
    "send_fulfillment_receipt": true,
    "note": "Created by somename",
    "line_items": [
      {
        "variant_id": 21718275463,
        "quantity": 1,
        "price": 99,
        "requires_shipping": true,
        "product_id": 6820646151
      },
      {
        "variant_id": 21717700871,
        "quantity": 1,
        "price": 1000,
        "requires_shipping": true,
        "product_id": 6820646151
      },
      {
        "variant_id": 21717690055,
        "quantity": 1,
        "price": 555,
        "requires_shipping": true,
        "product_id": 6821668807
      }
    ],
    "processing_method": "offsite",
    "shipping_address": {
      "first_name": "Chris",
      "address1": "10101 Musick Road",
      "phone": "9999999999",
      "city": "St. Louis",
      "zip": "63123",
      "province": "MO",
      "country": "United States",
      "last_name": "Becker",
      "name": "Chris Becker",
      "country_code": "US",
      "province_code": "MO"
    },
    "source_name": "somename",
    "taxes_included": false,
    "shipping_lines": [
      {
        "title": "standard",
        "price": 0.00,
        "code": null,
        "source": "brand owner on shopify",
        "carrier_identifier": null,
        "tax_lines": null
      }
    ],
    "tags": "some Order"
  }
}

Possible duplicate of Tax lines won't automatically generate in Shopify API order — Josh Brown
Did you figure this out? I think I am dealing with a similar issue, but with both shipping and tax. — Drew Baker

Moin Moin · Accepted Answer · 2016-06-06T09:32:31

Here is a useful documentation about tax: https://help.shopify.com/api/reference/location

Tax are not automatically calculated from cart.js ajax api. They just give a clue whether tax is already included in the price or not. If not, then it can be added with the bill.

Trying to figure out how tax lines work when creating Shopify order via API

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