ACCOUNT_ID

LICENSE_KEY

TRANSACTION_ID

TAX_CODE_ID

CERTIFICATE_ID

CUSTOMER_ID

REPORT_ID

SUBSCRIPTION_ID

TRANSACTION_CODE

COMPANY_CODE

COMPANY_ID

TAX_CODE

ITEM_ID

ITEM_CODE

ADDRESS

Explore Avalara's AvaTax API to automate tax calculations in Python. Learn to set up accounts, customize tax codes, handle product taxability, and integrate with e-commerce applications.

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Avalara offers automated software solutions to businesses for their tax compliance needs. Developers can learn and integrate Avalara’s AvaTax API. The API automatically calculates the appropriate tax on business transactions using the correct tax rates and the rules of the jurisdiction in which the company falls.  

In this course, you’ll learn how to integrate and set up a business account in Avalara. You’ll then learn about the tax codes in Avalara and how to customize them. This course will also walk you through handling product taxability. You’ll also learn to record and manage business transactions so that AvaTax automatically calculates the tax for us. 

By the end of the course, you’ll have hands-on experience integrating an e-commerce web application with the AvaTax API.

Calculating Sales Tax Using Avalara's AvaTax API in Python

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](https://taxcode.avatax.avalara.com/) 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:


Tax Codes

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Learn to use the AvaTax API to set up tax codes for any item that your company sells.

Item Tax Codes

Item Category	Item Subcategory	Item Type	Tax Code
Clothing	Clothing business-to-consumer	Athletic shoes	PC040402
Clothing	Clothing business-to-consumer	Formal wear	PC040118
Information technology	Hardware	Laptops	PC080110
Information technology	Software	Retail computer software	DC020000
Information technology	Data and web	Web design, maintenance, or management services / individual use	SW050000
Freight	Delivery	Delivery by company vehicle	FR010000

Introduction

Manage Company and Product Details

Tax Transactions

AvaTax API Integration in Django

Conclusion

Appendix

Item Tax Codes

Tax Codes

Creating tax codes