[ic] General Tax and tax on shipping

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "ZanDAhaR" <allan at zandahar.net>
To: <interchange-users at icdevgroup.org>
Sent: Friday, November 05, 2004 11:52 AM
Subject: [ic] General Tax and tax on shipping


>I am currently in a battle with our customer in relating to the tax 
>settings
> in thier interchange site we are setting up & hosting for them. We are in
> Australia and I am led to believe that on the invoice generated you have 
> to
> state that the total is inclusive of gst and you also have to show the GST
> ammount. eg $100 tax ammount is $9.09r. Given that the tax adds another 
> 10%
> onto the product price would it them mean to achieve the correct end price
> they would have to enter all the items as ex tax ?
>
> Is there any way that instead of the checkout page ADDING the tax 
> percentage
> make it just calculate what the taxed ammount would be for the item &
> shipping and leave the total alone ?
>
> I don't really have any skills in java or perl etc so I'm rather stuck 
> with
> what I can do. Basically we want everything including shipping to be taxed
> 10%, not add the additonal 10%, but still display the tax ammount.
>

You can do something like this after your total:

Includes GST of: [currency][calc][total-cost 
noformat=1]/11[/calc][/currency]

Cheers
Simon