Title: Role Based Tax Exclusion
Author: Orwokki
Published: <strong>January 27, 2023</strong>
Last modified: May 23, 2026

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# Role Based Tax Exclusion

 By [Orwokki](https://profiles.wordpress.org/orwokki/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/role-based-tax-exclusion.1.0.13.zip)

 * [Details](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/role-based-tax-exclusion/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/role-based-tax-exclusion/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/role-based-tax-exclusion/#installation)
 * [Development](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/role-based-tax-exclusion/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/role-based-tax-exclusion/)

## Description

With this plugin administrator can define which user roles see prices in store and
cart pages of WooCommerce without taxes. At checkout page taxes are shown to these
roles.

## Installation

This section describes how to install the plugin and get it working. To use this
plugin you have to have WooCommerce and WooCommerce Tax and Shipping plugins installed.

 1. Upload the plugin files to the `/wp-content/plugins/role-based-tax-exclusion` directory,
    or install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen directly.
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ screen in WordPress
 3. Navigate to WooCommerce -> Settings -> Tax -> Role Based Tax Exclusion
 4.  a. NOTE: You should have prices entered to products without tax and also setting `
        Prices entered with tax` set to `No, I will enter prices exclusive of tax`
     b. NOTE 2: You should also have `Display prices in the shop` and `Display prices 
        during cart and checkout` set to `Including tax`
     c. NOTE 3: If you exclude tax from Administrator role settings mentioned in NOTE 
        2 above are showing value `Excluding tax`
 5. Select one or multiple roles to be excluded from seeing prices with taxes from 
    the multiple selection
 6. Click `Save changes` button to save your selection
 7. Now users with the roles you selected won’t be seeing prices with taxes in Shop
    and Cart pages

## Reviews

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### 󠀁[Work fine, very good](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/work-fine-very-good/)󠁿

 [zlopez](https://profiles.wordpress.org/zlopez/) October 22, 2025

Very useful for working with wholesalers and end customers

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s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Simple and effective solution](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/simple-and-effective-solution-5/)󠁿

 [sinimaen](https://profiles.wordpress.org/sinimaen/) October 16, 2025

This solved my problem perfectly

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s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[I tested it and it does not work on my site](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/i-tested-it-and-it-does-not-work-on-my-site/)󠁿

 [stackomio](https://profiles.wordpress.org/stackomio/) April 2, 2023

This is exactly what I needed. But selected company as the role who should not see
the taxes but nothing happens after.

 [ Read all 3 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/role-based-tax-exclusion/reviews/)

## Contributors & Developers

“Role Based Tax Exclusion” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Orwokki ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/orwokki/)

[Translate “Role Based Tax Exclusion” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/role-based-tax-exclusion)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/role-based-tax-exclusion/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/role-based-tax-exclusion/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/role-based-tax-exclusion/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/role-based-tax-exclusion/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.0.13

 * Tested to work with WordPress 7.0 and WooCommerce 10.8

#### 1.0.12

 * Tested to work with WordPress 6.9 and WooCommerce 10.4 with High-performance 
   order storage

#### 1.0.11

 * Tested to work with WordPress 6.7 and WooCommerce 9.4

#### 1.0.10

 * Tested to work with WordPress 6.6 and WooCommerce 9.1
 * Removed support for PHP 7.4, only PHP 8.x version are supported in the future

#### 1.0.9

 * Tested to work with WordPress 6.5 and WooCommerce 8.7
 * Added new Requires Plugins header with value woocommerce

#### 1.0.8

 * Tested to work with WordPress 6.4 and WooCommerce 8.3
 * Finnish translation file locale corrected

#### 1.0.7

 * Fix to readme.txt

#### 1.0.6

 * Tested to work with WordPress 6.3 and WooCommerce 8.0

#### 1.0.5

 * Tested to work with WooCommerce 7.8
 * Added some more installation instructions to get the plugin working smoothly

#### 1.0.4

 * Tested to work with WordPress 6.2 and WooCommerce 7.5

#### 1.0.3

 * Testing to work with WooCommerce 7.4

#### 1.0.2

 * Bugfix to showing menu in common installation scenarios
 * Naming translation files correctly

#### 1.0.1

 * Bugfix to activating the plugin in certain environments

#### 1.0

 * Initial production version

## Meta

 *  Version **1.0.13**
 *  Last updated **2 months ago**
 *  Active installations **20+**
 *  WordPress version ** 5.8 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **7.0.1**
 *  PHP version ** 8.0 or higher **
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/role-based-tax-exclusion/)
 * Tags
 * [roles](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/roles/)[tax](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/tax/)
   [woocommerce](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/woocommerce/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/role-based-tax-exclusion/advanced/)

## Ratings

 3.7 out of 5 stars.

 *  [  2 5-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/role-based-tax-exclusion/reviews/?filter=5)
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 *  [  1 1-star review     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/role-based-tax-exclusion/reviews/?filter=1)

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## Contributors

 *   [ Orwokki ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/orwokki/)

## Support

Got something to say? Need help?

 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/role-based-tax-exclusion/)