County Tax Rates and Paypal?

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I am currently only accepting payments through paypal and was curious how zen would work with the tax rates. In my state each county has different surtax rates. I already entered each individual tax rate for each county in paypal. I setup my zone in the zen tax rates also but this is only one rate for the entire state which is incorrect. My question is, if I am only using paypal can I just leave it like it is and the tax rates be applied through paypal when a customer checks out?

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Anyone?

[DrByte]

Short answer: no.

The only way you can let PayPal apply the taxes is to use PayPal Website Payments Standard. But, then the transaction values won't match between PayPal and your store, and thus your store will reject the payment notification and not record the sale details. So, you can't do that.

And, if you use Express Checkout or Website Payments Pro, PayPal doesn't do anything with adding/calculating taxes regardless of the settings in your PayPal account.

If you need to do county-specific taxing, you'll have to explore one or more of the 3rd-party contributed addons, and see whether they work for your needs.