“…Recently, general soliton solutions for a nonlocal NLS equation were produced using a combination of the Hirota's bilinear method and KP hierarchy reduction 91 . This finding has triggered rapid progress in studies of solitons in nonlocal systems 49,50,92,93 . Inspired by that work, we consider tau‐functions of the nonlocal Maccari system.Lemma Referring to the Sato theory 74,94–97 , the bilinear equations in the KP hierarchy give rise to the following tau‐functions, with matrix elements satisfying the following difference relations, …”