Ecommerce Sales Tax issue
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It seems if you have 'states/provinces' which are exempt from a 'Country' tax, you cant actually set this.
I have United Kingdom set as my Country, they have tax at 20%. in its state/province list are 'Jersey' and 'Guernsey' which have 0% tax.
I have added the country as a tax, and left the state/province default. This applies the tax to the whole state/province list.
I then added a new tax of 0% specifically for 'Jersey'. When i do a test checkout, Jersey is still charged 20%.
The only option available to achieve what i need, is to add an individual rate for every state/province in the list (that means adding the tax about 70 times). This doesnt seem correct, surly there is a work around.
Im not the only person who has wanted to achieve this, so if anyone knows a fix it would be much appreciated.
I have United Kingdom set as my Country, they have tax at 20%. in its state/province list are 'Jersey' and 'Guernsey' which have 0% tax.
I have added the country as a tax, and left the state/province default. This applies the tax to the whole state/province list.
I then added a new tax of 0% specifically for 'Jersey'. When i do a test checkout, Jersey is still charged 20%.
The only option available to achieve what i need, is to add an individual rate for every state/province in the list (that means adding the tax about 70 times). This doesnt seem correct, surly there is a work around.
Im not the only person who has wanted to achieve this, so if anyone knows a fix it would be much appreciated.
I also am feeling that the tax issue is one of the things that hasn't been thought out that well in the eCommerce add-on. I think they are improving it currently a bit hopefully it will get better (e.g. product-specific taxes, issues with sales tax already included in the price).
The key to do some workarounds on these issues is simply to override the tax rate class (models/sales/tax/rate.php). You need to know some PHP and spend some time investigating the logic but the method you want to take look into is setupEnabledRates().
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Antti / Mainio