How do I update the tax rate on my products?
When an official tax rate changes (for example, when Estonia's standard VAT rose to 22%), you'll usually want your existing products to start billing at the new rate. There are two ways to do this — pick whichever suits the scale of the change.
First, add the new rate. Editing an existing tax rate's percentage isn't possible once it's been used on any invoice, estimate, or product — that would silently rewrite history. Add the new rate as a separate entry under Business settings → Taxes, then update your products to point at it. See Managing tax rates for the reasoning and the full workflow.
One product at a time
Open the product from the Products list and change the Tax rate field to the new rate. Save. That product will use the new rate on every new document from now on. Existing documents are not affected — they keep the rate that was applied at the time they were issued.
In bulk
If you have many products to update, use bulk actions instead:
- Go to Products and tick the products you want to change. To affect every product, tick the header checkbox and then click Select all rows from all pages.
- From the bulk action bar, open More actions → Edit.
- In the bulk update modal, tick the Tax rate checkbox, set the new rate, and save.
See Bulk actions on customers and products for the full bulk workflow, and Built-in vs custom tax rates for why you should add a new rate rather than editing an old one when an official percentage changes.