[ic] Challenging tax issue

[interchange at tvcables.co.uk]

>
> 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.
> >
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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.




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