Review and clarify legal warnings in tax details modal #9161
Labels
focus: tax (VAT) documents
priority: low
The issue/PR is low priority—not many people are affected or there’s a workaround, etc.
type: bug
The issue is a confirmed bug.
Describe the bug
In the modal for adding merchant tax details, there is a warning/requirement:
When working on adding Japan support, @haszari removed this warning (for Japan only), since it mentions "VAT" directly (Japan does not call it VAT), and also it's unclear what the rules are in Japan.
If we want to warn merchants about the legalities of registering / providing tax info, we should do this in documentation, and link to it from the UI. There's likely a lot of detail/nuance that would clutter the dialog (and is slow to update).
A new merchant seeing this warning might ask:
Ideally we would guide them to relevant info.
The goal of this issue is to either remove this legal warning, or reword it, and consider adding a link to docs, e.g. add some info to Tax Documents page (or link out to expertise).
To Reproduce
Payments > Documents
. Fake one up with this CLI command:wp wcpay add_document_for_account [account_id] vat_invoice --mode=test --period_from="2024-04-01 00:00:00" --period_to="2024-04-30 23:59:59"
wp wcpay backfill_merchant_vat_invoices
company_vat_submitted
company_vat_number
company_name
company_address
fromwcpay_account_meta
table.Payments > Documents
.Download
for a tax doc row.Actual behavior
Confusing warning about legality/regulations in specific regions.
Expected behavior
Soften warning, and link out to docs for accurate details in each region.
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