Applying taxes ONLY to shipping cost for a specific country

Question

I'm working for a non-profit and our WordPress website uses WooCommerce. We're not collecting taxes on the products prices.

We'd like to apply taxes only on the shipping cost when buyers are shipping their order to Canada.

For example, if someone from Canada buys a $20 book, and shipping costs is $5, I want the tax to be calculated $5 * 15% = $0.75 instead of what is does currently which is ($20 + $5) * 15% = $3.75

I don't have enough php knowledge to make up a functional snippet to add in my child theme function.php file.

Answer 1

My answer, as you will see below, is just about WooCommerce settings in your Admin Products Pages.

In your Admin products List, Edit a product. Go to the settings "Product Data" on "General" Tab. In "Tax status" selector, chose "Shipping only" option instead of "Taxable" option just as below:

Then "Update" your product. You are done. Now the tax will be applied only to the shipping, not to the product.

You will need to do that for all products that need this option.

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— Update —

Finally this solution has worked for @johana: "I entered taxes infos only for Canada, in the table in Woocommerce> settings> Tax> Standard. So taxes will only be applied to countries where I entered taxes informations, which is only Canada."…