[checkout] tax

singrum

Joined: 2008-12-01
Posts: 9
Posted: Fri, 2008-12-05 14:36

How are people handling sales tax?
We are using the checkout with paypal.
 
magicrob

Joined: 2009-01-07
Posts: 6
Posted: Tue, 2009-03-17 09:30

As everything is a flat 10% here in Australia, I've decided to do a dodgy.

As I don't use discounts, I've hacked this functionality to apply a "negative discount", ie a positive amount and have hacked the templates to display it properly.

Seems to work perfectly fine. If I find someone outside of Australia is buying images, I just have a special group that doesn't get that discount.

I needed something quickly, so went this way rather than writing my own module. If I get some spare time perhaps I'll look at writing a module. Until then, this works... Perhaps Pixaria's (pixaria.com) functionality will be what I need and I can migrate to that :) For US$195 it definitely provides value for money. Unfortunately it just isn't flexible enough for what I need.
 
magicrob

Joined: 2009-01-07
Posts: 6
Posted: Fri, 2009-03-20 03:03

Should also mention, you will need to change payment modules appropriately too, for example the paypal checkout module needs some modification to remove the way it does discounting and add a tax field...
 
floridave
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Joined: 2003-12-22
Posts: 22883
Posted: Fri, 2009-03-20 03:43

LOL

Tax = negative discount

Don't mention that too much or governments all over the world will make a habit of give you greater negative discounts. :-)

Dave

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dmcantrell

Joined: 2007-10-04
Posts: 24
Posted: Wed, 2009-09-16 17:57

Hello,

I have searched the forums and can't find a definitive answer to these requests.

Is there a [checkout] tax module in the works, or is there a "sales tax" solution available?

Thanks,

Dave
 
alecmyers

Joined: 2006-08-01
Posts: 4338
Posted: Wed, 2009-09-16 19:45

No - there exists no solution for sales tax within checkout.