Re: [ic] Challenging tax issue

[Noah Silverman <suppressed>]

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, suppressed wrote:

> > On May 12, 2005, at 12:29 PM, suppressed wrote:
> >
> >
> > > Quoting Noah Silverman <suppressed>:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > > 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.
> > >
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> Quoting Noah Silverman <suppressed>:
>
>
> > 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.
>
>
>
>
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