Re: how to calculate shipping tax?

[Kyle Hayes <kyle540@quicknet.net>]

On Wed, 16 Jun 1999, Tim Shea wrote:

> Hi Kyle,
> 
> I haven't run into this problem before, so I'm not 100% sure this will work, 
> but I assume you only want to charge tax to certain US states. If this is 
> the case, on foreign countries, don't display the shipping city state and 
> zip fields. Make up your own and put them on receipt.html and report.html. 
> (Of course in checkout.html too.) Then just do a comparison:
> 
> [if country eq 'US']
>   # display/request US csz
> [else]
>   # display/request non-US csz
> [/else]
> [/if]
> 
> >How do I get sales tax to trigger only when the country and the state
> >match the criteria?

Hmm, that would be considerably more complex than I would like :-(

Most of our sales are overseas.  So, whatever solution I come up with
should work for everyone.  My thought was to create another variable that
had the country code and state combined:

	US_CA

would be for California in the US.  That way, countries that matched such
as Canada (CA) wouldn't accidentally trigger the system.

A little bit of perl on the checkout page should suffice to produce
this...  I think :-)

Then, if I key the sales tax to this new variable the sales tax will only
be calculated on this combination of country and state.

I'll try it and report back...

Best,
Kyle