[ic] Tax problems (not IRS :-)

[Michael Hall]

On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 09:41:16AM -0800, Ed LaFrance wrote:

<snip>

> >I have the 'nontaxable' field in my products database and whether I have
> >it set to 0 or 1 the item shows as being taxed on the checkout page.
> >I noticed in 'after.cfg' in the various profiles it sets NonTaxableField
> >to nontaxable while the default profile just says NonTaxableField, I
> >changed that line to 'Profile default NonTaxableField nontaxable' but
> >that didn't change anything. According to the docs, salestax.asc contains
> >lines with the state and taxrate but mine has 'default [fly-tax]' and
> >I don't even see 'fly-tax' mentioned anywhere grepping all the docs.

<snip>

> For you situation it may suffice to simply add:
> 
> NonTaxableField  nontaxable
> 
> ...directly in catalog.cfg and reconfig.  If that alone does not work, 
> comment out 'include etc/after.cfg' in your catalog.cfg and reconfig 

That did it, thanks! I wound up just adding the entry to catalog.cfg
and left after.cfg alone.

> again.  [fly-tax] is a tag which simply does a dynamic tax calculation 
> against the TAX* vars and returns the tax amount in $ (as opposed to using 
> a true tax table).

Ah, thanks for the explanation. I take it then that fly-tax is a somewhat
generic method and if something more or out of the ordinary is needed then
you'd enter the data into the table instead of 'default [fly-tax]'.

On another note why doesn't:

Profile default NonTaxableField nontaxable

in the after.cfg work? I would have thought that'd set the default if no
other profile was in effect.

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Mike Hall,
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