Wholesale tax exemption removes tax for qualifying business customers while retail shoppers keep paying it. In WooCommerce, you can apply wholesale tax exemption to every wholesale user, to specific wholesale roles, or to a single customer. A wholesale buyer once emailed a store owner asking why they were being charged consumer tax on a trade order. Below is how each type of wholesale tax exemption works, plus an honest section on where EU VAT numbers fit. What Wholesale Tax Exemption Actually Does It stops tax from being applied to orders from customers you have qualified as tax-exempt.