Kansas Destination Based Sales Tax

**illusionhill** · 5 Jan 2008, 12:23 AM

Alright for starters I am new to Zen Cart. I have been searching the forums for about a week now and have not been able to find anything to help me. I may be looking in the wrong places or for the wrong things.
That said, I do not have any idea how to tap into the database that Kansas has for taxes. You can send them a zip code via a SOAP document(something else that is new to me) and they send you back the tax rate for that area. I hope that makes sense and I don't sound too stupid. Thanks in advance for any help that can be provided.

**Yacko1975** · 29 Jan 2008, 10:07 PM

Here is an example of how to use their SOAP call in PHP. I don't know much about making modules for ZenCart but maybe someone else can put this to good use.

PHP Code:


<?php



$wsdl = "sstp.wsdl";

$client = new SoapClient($wsdl);



// var_dump($client->__getFunctions());

// var_dump($client->__gettypes());



$ReturnData = $client->GetFIPSBy5ZipOnly(66612,"2008-01-28");



//var_dump($ReturnData);

//echo $ReturnData->strReturnShortDesc;

//echo $ReturnData->strConfirmationNum;

//foreach ($ReturnData->FIPSRecordList as &$FipsRecord) {

//    echo $FipsRecord->strGeneralTaxRateIntrastate;

    

    

//}



?> 



<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">

<HTML>

   <HEAD>

      <TITLE>

         A Small Hello 

      </TITLE>

   </HEAD>

<BODY>

   <H1>Streamlined Sales Example</H1><br />

   <br />

   Return Code: <?php echo $ReturnData->intReturnCode ?><br />

   Return Short Description: <?php echo $ReturnData->strReturnShortDesc ?><br />

   Confirmation Number: <?php echo $ReturnData->strConfirmationNum ?><br />

   Time Stamp: <?php echo $ReturnData->strEventTimeStamp ?><br />

<table width="700px">

<thead>

    <tr>

        <td>State</td>

        <td>Juris Type</td>

        <td>CompositeSER</td>

        <td>FIPS Code</td>

        <td>General Intrastate Rate</td>

        <td>General Interstate Rate</td>

        <td>Food/Drug Intrastate Rate</td>

        <td>Food/Drug Interstate Rate</td>

    </tr>

</thead>

<?php foreach ($ReturnData->FIPSRecordList as &$FipsRecord) { ?>

    <tr>

        <td><?php echo $FipsRecord->intState ?></td>

        <td><?php echo $FipsRecord->strJurisdictionType ?></td>

        <td><?php echo $FipsRecord->strCompositeSER ?></td>

        <td><?php echo $FipsRecord->intJurisdictionFIPS ?></td>

        <td><?php echo $FipsRecord->strGeneralTaxRateIntrastate ?></td>

        <td><?php echo $FipsRecord->strGeneralTaxRateInterstate ?></td>

        <td><?php echo $FipsRecord->strFoodDrugTaxRateIntrastate ?></td>

        <td><?php echo $FipsRecord->strFoodDrugTaxRateInterstate ?></td>

    </tr>

<?php } ?>    

</table>