Configuring Taxes for Canadian Sites/Zones

[Winks]

Thanks Steven!

I'll have a look into your suggestions. I might also get a friend of mine to help me upload the new version of Zen Cart because Dr. Byte seemed to infer that might help too.

I'll let you know how I get on.

Again thank you very much for your support.

John

[s_mack]

Yeah, I'm using 1.3.7 on the store that I checked on. How'd you fix it Dr. B? Does it now go by the store's location? Just curious.

John, you probably should upgrade to the latest version. I should too - just haven't had the time, especially with all the mods I have.

Best of luck!

- Steven

[MarieAndree]

[QUOTE=DrByte;198824]You might find this helpful ... it needs a bit of touching-up, but the basic core is there:
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- Tax Class Title: GST Shipping Class
- Zone: Canada GST Zone
- Tax Rate (%): 5.0000
- Description: 5.0% GST on shipping
- Priority: 1

- Tax Class Title: GST Shipping Class
- Zone: Ontario PST Zone
- Tax Rate (%): 8.0000
- Description: 8.0% PST (shipping)
- Priority: 1


etc.


Except this doesn't work for Quebec. Quebec PST is 7.5% (not 8%) on top of GST.

The final rate is 12,875% (not 13%). Every time I tried, Zen Cart rounded that DOWN to 12% That is not acceptable, not any more than rounding it up to 13%.

Plus, it is quite a bugger not to be able to show both taxes separately on invoices. It raises tons of questions i can well do without.

Thanks

Marie-Andree

[s_mack]

It doesn't round at all. Do an actual transaction and report the details (and use a relatively large subtotal amount).

[MarieAndree]

I does so round. If I input the actual tax rate for PST on top of GST, that is 12,875%, zencart rounds it DOWN to 12%. If I input 12,88%, same difference. It's only if I iput 12,9% that it behaves ok and takes it.

The problem is, I don't want to have to reconfigure my accounting software just for the sake of zencart....

[s_mack]

So if you have a $1000 item, you're saying it shows the tax as $120.00 instead of $128.75? (don't guess... try it). If so, you're doing something wrong with the setup I think.

Wait a minute... are you INPUTTING a rate of 12.875% (or 12.88 or 12.9)? That's not how you're supposed to do it if that's the case. You're supposed to put the two taxes in separately and let it do the calculation.

- Steven

[matthewr]

Coming in late on this and I am somewhat new to Zen Cart but I noticed in the "My Store" menu, there is a field for "Tax Decimal Places". I have mine set to zero because, as I understand it, "Pad the tax value this amount of decimal places" would suggest rounding. Therefore, if I set it to 1, it would round up. Is this correct or have I been using Excel too long?

If I am correct, this may be MarieAndree's problem. I will test it once I finish setting up my site.

Matthew

[st1cky]

looking to hire an expert for assistance with tax/shipping configuration

running v1.3.8a/v1.3.8

despite attempts to follow the above instructions, still not getting taxes and shipping proper tallied/calculated (or even recognized) for out of province orders.

/greg

[johnenns]

I have a problem with gst not being added to the order for any orders going out of province. All taxes work fine with orders in province.

All the settings are correct from what I can see.

Any ideas why it's screwed up?

[johnenns]

I figured it out, I had my configuration set to base tax on store location instead of shipping address.