[ic] Tax Exempt ?

[Steve Palm]

>You may be able to set it up based on the userdb as you started to do.  This
>is what I use (thanks to Mike Heins) in one of our catalogs to determine
>dealer or no dealer, it configs the price field prior to everything starting
>up (of course the customer has to log in for it to be effective).

 This is the rub...  I didn't want to require this.  However, I was able to
 make everything work the way I wanted it to in the end.  It seems that all
 I had to do was insert the "interpolate=1" into the [perl] tags I was
 using to update the values.  I think this changes when it actually runs
 the code, and the end result is that one refresh makes everything happy.

 So, the below code now works fine with the addition of the interpolate.
 
 I'm just leaving it here for anyone who may be facing similar issues.

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>Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2001 1:28 PM
>To: interchange-users@lists.akopia.com
>Subject: [ic] Tax Exempt ?
>
>
>
>HELP!  :-)  I've been digging through the docs, and I'm still lost....
>
>How can you handle tax exempt orders?
>
>I've tried adding a tax_exempt field to the userdb.  This updates correctly,
>and tracks with the users.
>
>        <SELECT onChange="this.form.submit()" NAME=tax_exempt>
>        <OPTION VALUE="0">No
>        <OPTION [selected tax_exempt 1] VALUE="1">Yes
>        </SELECT>
>	Tax Exempt (with required paperwork)
>
>I also have been able, then, to use this field on the form to determine
>whether or not to process the line that shows Sales Tax.  This works fine.
>
>	<TD>Sales Tax</TD>
>	[if value tax_exempt == 1 ]
>	<TD ALIGN=RIGHT>(EXEMPT)</TD>
>	[else]
>	<TD ALIGN=RIGHT>[salestax]</TD>
>        [/else]
>        [/if]
>
>
>I also set the catalog "SalesTax tax_state", and then based on the value of
>tax_exempt either set it to "" or to the state.  I tried this using a few
>different methods....
>
>    [if value tax_exempt != 1]
>    [perl] $Values->{tax_state} = $Values->{state}; return; [/perl]
>    [else]
>    [perl] $Values->{tax_state} = ""; return; [/perl]
>    [/else]
>    [/if]
>
> Also....
>
>    [if value tax_exempt != 1]
>    <INPUT TYPE=hidden NAME=tax_state VALUE=[value state]>
>    [else]
>    <INPUT TYPE=hidden NAME=tax_state VALUE="">
>    [/else]
>    [/if]
>
>
> And even a variant of a pure [perl] block that checked
> $Values->{tax_exempt} and did the appropriate updates...
>
>
>However, these all seem to lag...  In other words, if I change tax exempt
>status, it does a refresh of the page, updates the tax_exempt variable, but
>unless I do one more refresh of the page it doesn't stop the built-in
>routines from calculating tax and putting it in the totals.
>
>	<TD COLSPAN=2></TD>
>	<TD>TOTAL</TD>
>	<TD ALIGN=RIGHT>[total-cost]</TD>
>
><sigh>
>
>Anyone deal with this before?   We deal with a lot of non-profit
>organizations and it would be nice to have this automated.
>
>--
>Steve Palm <stevep@sga.org> * SGA * Loves Park, IL *
>http://www.sga.org
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