5 replies to this topic

[jimbeeer]

I'm trying to work out how to set the tax to be based on the billing address, rather than the shipping address.

I've already found solutions, but not for this version of OSCommerce. Could somebody help me please. The client's nagging for me to get it done yesterday and I haven't a clue!

Big thanks in advance

-James

[DunWeb]

@jimbeeer,

Taxes are collected according to the location of your location. If your business is registered in Orange County, Florida, you collect taxes from customers located in Florida. You do NOT collect taxes from customers in Oregon. So, set up your tax zones and tax rates for Florida and you are done.


Chris

[jimbeeer]

I'm in the UK, as is my client.

He has orders from all over the world, but he's found that when people in UK order something to get sent to South Africa they're not getting charged VAT.

Consequently people ordering in South Africa to get something sent within the UK are getting charged VAT, and they shouldn't be.

The whole thing about different states with different taxes is redundant.

So I need to charge VAT (tax) on the BILLING address, not the DELIVERY address.

Edited by jimbeeer, 09 February 2012, 17:23.

[jimbeeer]

Bump. If anyone can help I'd be most grateful. Found how to do it on the older version but not on 2.3.1

[DunWeb]

@jimbeeer

If you are shipping an item out of the UK, you should NOT charge taxes. If an item is being shipped within the UK, then they SHOULD be charged tax.



Chris

[squivo]

Haven't tried it yet - but in the includes/classes/order.php file - there's this code

	  if ($this->content_type == 'virtual') {
	    $tax_address = array('entry_country_id' => $billing_address['entry_country_id'],
							 'entry_zone_id' => $billing_address['entry_zone_id']);
	  } else {
	    $tax_address = array('entry_country_id' => $shipping_address['entry_country_id'],
							 'entry_zone_id' => $shipping_address['entry_zone_id']);
	  }

Pretty sure you could just change it to

	    $tax_address = array('entry_country_id' => $billing_address['entry_country_id'],
							 'entry_zone_id' => $billing_address['entry_zone_id']);