Simplify Excise Tax Compliance for Regulated Products

Selling firearms online comes with unique challenges, particularly when it comes to managing excise taxes and FFL dealer selection. To simplify these processes and ensure compliance with state and federal laws, RifleSupply.com partnered with IntuitSolutions to create a custom BigCommerce checkout solution.

The customized BigCommerce checkout featured the integration of the Ebizio Checkout Excise Tax module, a powerful tool for configuring tax rules by location and product group, which allowed the client to calculate and apply excise taxes as a fixed amount or percentage based on customer shipping locations. By combining this functionality with an intuitive FFL dealer search and selection system, our BigCommerce checkout developers delivered a solution that simplifies compliance, improves efficiency, and provides a seamless experience for customers.

For TobaccoPipes.com, a growing ecommerce retailer specializing in pipes, tobacco, cigars, and accessories, managing excise tax compliance presented a significant challenge. As a seller of regulated products, the company needed a solution to calculate and charge excise taxes based on shipping destinations, ensuring compliance with varying state and local laws. Without an integrated system, the complexities of tax compliance could result in hundreds of hours of additional accounting work and increased risk of non-compliance penalties.

To address these challenges, IntuitSolutions implemented the Excise Tax Manager by Ebizio Checkout, the only excise tax management BigCommerce app tailored for regulated products. This app enables merchants to assign tax rates to specific products and geographic zones, calculate taxes based on destination, and display fees transparently as separate line items at checkout. With features like configurable rules for products and zones, seamless compatibility with BigCommerce payment methods, and support for mixed carts, the Excise Tax Manager offers a comprehensive solution for businesses handling complex tax scenarios.

Managing excise tax compliance is a complex but essential task for online merchants selling regulated products, such as tires. A growing online tire retailer faced the challenge of accurately calculating and charging excise tax based on customer shipping destinations. With tax rates varying by state, county, and even municipality, they needed a solution that ensured compliance without creating additional operational burdens. IntuitSolutions stepped in with the Excise Tax Manager, a custom app specifically designed for excise tax management BigCommerce.

The Excise Tax Manager enables merchants to configure tax rates for specific products and geographic zones, ensuring accurate tax calculations at the SKU, product, or order level. For the tire retailer, this meant the ability to apply tire taxes as separate line items at checkout, enhancing transparency and simplifying compliance. The app supports diverse tax scenarios, whether charging a flat rate per product or a percentage based on local regulations.