If you’re developing WordPress locally with WooCommerce, you’ll likely be presented with a notification to activate the Shipping and Tax, like:
WooCommerce Shipping & Tax is almost ready to go! Once you connect your site to WordPress.com you’ll have access to automated tax calculation.
But on Local Development Environment (e.g. local.mysite or localhost), you’re also likely to encounter the error:
ERROR response: “The jetpack server was unable to communicate with your site“
Activating with Jetpack in your local environment
When working on a theme or a plugin in your local environment, you can enable Jetpack’s Development mode to use features that do not require a connection to WordPress.com servers. To use Jetpack in Development mode, you can add define( 'JETPACK_DEV_DEBUG', true ); to your wp-config.php. You can learn more about Jetpack Development mode here.