[ic] Now: Re: Charging sales tax to Billing State

[Mike Heins]

Quoting cfm@maine.com (cfm@maine.com):
> On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 09:41:47AM -0400, Rick Shank wrote:
> > 
> > Well, I guess I mixed up what I was asking.  The technically correct way 
> > to charge sales tax is the the purchaser, not necessarily the receiver.  
> > So, if the billing state is filled in, then sales tax should be calculated 
> > to this, if not, then assume that Billing Address == Shipping Address, so 
> > calculate based on the Shipping State.
> > 
> > Any ideas on how to implement this easily?
> 
> That is not true in all states.  At least here in maine sales tax goes
> according to shipping address.  So if you buy out of state but ship to maine
> it is taxable.
> 
> easily?
> 

In catalog.cfg:

	SalesTax   tax_state

At top of checkout.html and appropriate place in etc/profiles.order:

	[if value b_state]
		[value name=tax_state set="[value b_state]" hide=1]
	[else]
		[value name=tax_state set="[value state]" hide=1]
	[/else]
	[/if]

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