orderInformation. lineItems[].taxAmount

Total tax to apply to the product.

This field is supported only for American Express Direct, Chase Paymentech Solutions, Elavon Americas, FDC Compass, FDMS South, FDC Nashville Global, FDMS Nashville, GPN, , OmniPay Direct, RBS WorldPay Atlanta, TSYS Acquiring Solutions, , and Worldpay VAP.

When you include this field, the Tax Calculation service does not calculate tax for the offer. Instead, it returns the value of

orderInformation.lineItems.taxAmount

in the reply field

orderInformation.lineItems[].taxAmount

This value cannot be negative. The tax amount and the

unit price

must be in the same currency.

The tax amount value is additive as shown in the following example.

Example:
This example uses a two-exponent currency such as USD:

You include the following

offers

in your request:

orderInformation.lineItems[0].unitPrice=10.00
orderInformation.lineItems[0].quantity=1
orderInformation.lineItems[0].taxAmount=0.80
orderInformation.lineItems[1].unitPrice=20.00
orderInformation.lineItems[1].quantity=1
orderInformation.lineItems[1].taxAmount=1.60

The total authorized amount is 32.40, not 30.00 with 2.40 of tax included.

Airline Processing

Tax portion of the order amount. This value cannot exceed 99999999999999 (fourteen 9s). Format: English characters only. Optional request field for a line item.

Tax Calculation

Optional field for U.S., Canadian, international tax, and value-added taxes.

When you want to include

orderInformation.lineItems[].taxAmount

and also request the tax service, see the tax calculation service guide.

Specifications

Data Type:
String

Data Length:
15

Mapping Information

REST API Field:

orderInformation.lineItems.taxAmount

SCMP API Field:

tax_amount

Simple Order API Field:

item_#_taxAmount

Processor Field Names

This list provides the Level II/Level III processor field name for each processor that supports Level II or Level III data.

American Express Direct:
not applicable

Chase Paymentech Solutions:
Tax Amount

Elavon Americas:
VAT / Tax Amount

FDC Compass:
Tax Amount

FDC Nashville Global:
Local Tax Amount

FDMS Nashville:
not applicable

FDMS South:
not applicable

GPN:

Level II: Amount 2

Level III: Tax Amount N

OmniPay Direct:
Tax Amount / Total Tax Amount

RBS WorldPay Atlanta:
Tax Amount

TSYS Acquiring Solutions:

Mastercard: Tax Amount

Visa: VAT / Tax Amount

Visa Platform Connect:
localTax Amount

Worldpay VAP:
taxAmount