[ic] Challenging tax issue

Noah Silverman noah at allresearch.com
Thu May 12 18:30:08 EDT 2005


Perfect!!  Thanks!!

Just one last question.

Right now I have the tax set in the country table with "default=5%".   
How do I change that to include the nitmes and other stuff??

Thanks,

-N


On May 12, 2005, at 2:23 PM, interchange at tvcables.co.uk wrote:

>>
>> On May 12, 2005, at 12:29 PM, interchange at tvcables.co.uk wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Quoting Noah Silverman <noah at allresearch.com>:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I have a tricky tax situation and was hoping that someone could
>>>> help me out.
>>>>
>>>> We are shipping some products overseas.
>>>> We are using the foundation store
>>>>
>>>> The tax  needs to be $2 per item PLUS 5% of the price.
>>>>
>>>> Does anybody have an idea about how to do this easily.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks in advance,
>>>>
>>>> -Noah
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> I assign all my Tax/VAT manually on the checkout page based on a
>>> region lookup
>>> in the country table, in this example all countries with region  
>>> set to
>>> Europe-EC would get taxed at 5% + $2 and anything gets a Tax of 0.
>>>
>>> [assign salestax]
>>> [if type="data" term="country::region::[value country]" op="eq"
>>> compare="Europe-EC"]
>>> [assign salestax="[calc](([total-cost noformat=1]-[salestax
>>> noformat=1]) *
>>> 0.05)+2)[/calc]"]
>>> [else]
>>> [assign salestax=0]
>>> [/else]
>>> [/if]
>>>
>>> Hope that helps,
>>> Andy.
>>>
>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>>> This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.
>>>
>>
>>
>
> Quoting Noah Silverman <noah at allresearch.com>:
>
>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> ALMOST what I need.
>>
>> I have to charge $2 PER ITEM plus 5%
>>
>> I would love for it to show up in the tax field.  I did see that
>> there is a way to enter a calculation for each region's tax.  I
>> didn't know if there was a way to say something like:
>>   "($2*quantity) + (.05*subtotal)"
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> -N
>>
>
> I misread that bit, nitems will return the number of items so just  
> change the
> calc to set the tax to nitems * 2 then add 5%.
>
> Are you adding 5% to the subtotal or the total-cost though? If it  
> is subtotal
> then you won't be taxing the shipping/handling.
>
> Regards,
> Andy.
>
>
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.
>
>



More information about the interchange-users mailing list