On 10/30/07, Mike Heins <suppressed> wrote: > Quoting Dan Bergan (suppressed): > > On 10/16/07, Dan Bergan <suppressed> wrote: > > > I'm having an issue where negative sales tax amounts are computed. > > > The issue arises when there is a discount on the entire order, and the > > > products in the cart are nontaxable. > > > > > > A detailed description and potential solution is here: > > > http://www.icdevgroup.org/pipermail/interchange-users/2007-May/047410.html > > > > > > This issue was also found here (with no resolutions): > > > http://www.icdevgroup.org/pipermail/interchange-users/2005-September/043923.html > > > > > > Is this a bug? It doesn't seem like a negative sales tax should be valid. > > > > > > > Back in May, Carl had what looks to be a good solution for this > > problem, which I am going to implement for my installation (see > > below). > > It is unclear if it should be a bug at all. If you wanted to implement > refunds, you would need negative tax. > > The bigger problem would seem to be the negative amounts. > > In any case, I have set up the ability to exclude negative tax > amounts with: > > Pragma no_negative_tax > > That is in the latest CVS. > Mike - Ahh... refunds -- I hadn't thought of that! :-) For refunds, the taxable sales amount would be negative, so the tax would calculate as a negative. In the case above (non-taxable products with a discount), the taxable amount should still be zero (not negative). I currently don't use Interchange for refunds, but that doesn't mean I never will! So, I think I'll have to ponder this some more and dig deeper into the code. Thanks - Dan _______________________________________________ interchange-users mailing list suppressed http://www.icdevgroup.org/mailman/listinfo/interchange-users
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