--- title: How to fix tax_behavior missing for prices error slug: how-to-fix-tax_behavior-missing-for-prices-error published_at: 2021-10-06 15:00:08 +0000 updated_at: 2023-01-30 22:52:44 +0000 summary: description: Learn how to fix the exception: \"one or more provided prices do not have a `tax_behavior` set which is required for automatic tax computation.\" ### Presenter CJ Avilla - Developer Advocate at Stripe - https://twitter.com/cjav_dev ### Table of contents 00:00 Introduction 00:13 What causes the exception 00:42 How to fix a single price in the Stripe Dashboard 01:19 How to update `tax_behavior` with the Stripe CLI 03:35 Conclusion ### Resources Stripe Tax: https://stripe.com/tax Documentation: https://stripe.com/docs/tax Tax behavior: https://stripe.com/docs/tax/products-prices-tax-codes-tax-behavior#tax-behavior ### Support If you have a question, please feel free to reach out to our support team on Discord at https://stripe.com/go/developer-chat ### Updates Sign up to stay updated with developer news: https://go.stripe.global/dev-digest ### Feedback If you have any feedback about this or other episodes, let us know: https://forms.gle/VjNqzRhotM2snYo88 tags: [stripe, payments, stripe cli, stripe tax, tax_behavior, dev bytes, @cjav_dev] views: 1396 author: CJ Avilla url: https://www.cjav.dev/videos/how-to-fix-tax_behavior-missing-for-prices-error youtube_url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfaqrxEO8Y4 youtube_id: KfaqrxEO8Y4 embed_url: https://www.youtube.com/embed/KfaqrxEO8Y4 thumbnail_url: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/KfaqrxEO8Y4/hqdefault.jpg type: video --- # How to fix tax_behavior missing for prices error *Published: October 06, 2021* *Views: 1396* ## Watch [Watch on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfaqrxEO8Y4) [![How to fix tax_behavior missing for prices error](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/KfaqrxEO8Y4/hqdefault.jpg)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfaqrxEO8Y4) ## Description Learn how to fix the exception: "one or more provided prices do not have a `tax_behavior` set which is required for automatic tax computation." ### Presenter CJ Avilla - Developer Advocate at Stripe - https://twitter.com/cjav_dev ### Table of contents 00:00 Introduction 00:13 What causes the exception 00:42 How to fix a single price in the Stripe Dashboard 01:19 How to update `tax_behavior` with the Stripe CLI 03:35 Conclusion ### Resources Stripe Tax: https://stripe.com/tax Documentation: https://stripe.com/docs/tax Tax behavior: https://stripe.com/docs/tax/products-prices-tax-codes-tax-behavior#tax-behavior ### Support If you have a question, please feel free to reach out to our support team on Discord at https://stripe.com/go/developer-chat ### Updates Sign up to stay updated with developer news: https://go.stripe.global/dev-digest ### Feedback If you have any feedback about this or other episodes, let us know: https://forms.gle/VjNqzRhotM2snYo88 ## Transcript hey how's it going i wanted to talk through one of these common exceptions that you might be seeing now that you can enable stripe tacks in your dashboard [Music] so when you're using stripe checkout or another stripe product with stripe tax you might see this exception that says one or more provided prices does not have a tax behavior set which is required for automatic tax computation and so what happens is when you're using products and prices with maybe checkout or other stripe products you need to specify whether that price or product is inclusive or exclusive so here in the stripe dashboard you can check out some of the prices and products that i have here i have like this recurring product for net club it's just a an example club here and inside of the prices i can edit the price and down at the bottom here i see include the tax in the price or not and so by default stripe doesn't know if you haven't specified whether or not tax should be included or excluded from the final price by default one thing that's important is you talk to a tax consultant and figure out whether or not you actually need to have these included or excluded but i wanted to do is go through and mark that all of my prices are exclusive so i can go in here and i can say no the final price is does not include the tax and then save this price to update it as being exclusive i wanted to show another way that you can do this though from the command line using the stripe cli so we could say stripe prices list and this will list out all of our stripe prices this is what we're getting back from the api i'm using the stripe cli if you're unfamiliar we have a video on this channel all about the stripe cli and so what we're getting back is this giant json object that has a stripe list response for the prices endpoint so i can say stripe prices list limit 100 so this is going to give me a page of 100 prices now i'm going to pipe that into jq jq is a nice command line tool for working with javascript and what i want to do here is say i want to pipe this to jq and grab off the data so at the very top of this array there is uh some data all right so that data array i want to grab all of the ids off of that so if i say pipe jq dot id for data flat brackets or square brackets dot id i get back all the prices now what i want to do is i want to pipe this into another stripe cli command that is stripe prices update stripe prices update and i want to pass in the id of the price here and rather than having to type that in every time i can use the tool x args and i can say we're going to use one argument from the left and we want to name that argument the curly brackets so this is the price that we want to update and then what we want to pass as the parameter or the argument is the tax behavior so i'm going to say dash d tax behavior equals exclusive now this will run through every single price and update its tax behavior so that it is exclusive and then when i come back into my stripe dashboard all of my taxes will be exclusive all right now tax will automatically be calculated for us and the price that we're using has been updated to use an exclusive price so if we type in some address here we should see the tax calculated using the sales tax for this location this is how you work through the error where you see one or more provided prices does not have a tax behavior thanks so much for watching and we'll see in the next one --- [Back to all videos](https://www.cjav.dev/videos) --- ## Hey Agent, thanks for visiting! 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