[ic] Shipping woes

[Mike Heins]

Quoting Jamie Neil (jamie@versado.net):
> Andy Mayer wrote
> > On Tue, 2003-05-06 at 23:08, Jamie Neil wrote:
> > > I've got a Usertag which adds VAT onto all the displayed prices in my
> > > catalog (it's a consumer oriented site), and I can wrap it
> > around just about
> > > any tag I want (price, total etc.) by using the contained tag's noformat
> > > option.
> >
> > I am also building a B2C site, and need VAT to be included in all the
> > prices displayed, but I have chosen a different solution which I would
> > value feedback on...
> >
> > I have decided to make all prices stored in the products and shipping
> > table to be *inclusive* of VAT. I have then used code to display the VAT
> > element of the prices at checkout as follows.
> 
> I considered doing this, but thought I'd run into too many problems - maybe
> in hindsight...
> 
> I think one of the reasons I discounted it was that although the primary
> customer base for out shop is going to be the UK (where VAT is always
> included in customer prices), we also want to attract european customers.
> This makes it useful to show price inclusive _and_ exclusive  of VAT.
> 
> So it was a choice between storing the prices without VAT and adding it on
> where necessary for display, and storing prices with VAT and adding it on
> for display! I judged that taking VAT off would be harder, especially at the
> checkout. Not so sure now :)

What I have always done is create a price both with VAT and without VAT.
Then I can just do:

	Locale en_UK CommonAdjust  ":vatprice"
	Locale en_US CommonAdjust  ":price"

But you could also do as I said previously:

	Locale en_UK CommonAdjust  ":price, [add-tax]"
	Locale en_US CommonAdjust  ":price"

The simple-minded way:

	Locale en_UK CommonAdjust  ":price, 17%"

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