Local State Taxes question

[castellian]

The state I'm in has slightly complex taxes. Each county can have a different tax (local option tax). Moreover, within a county, some parts of the county may or may not have the local option apply to them.

I'm still learning Zen Cart. I have the book (e-start...) and have been looking through the forums and such. I haven't quite found a post that helps clear this up (or maybe I'm being dense today).

Anyway, here is the question...

How do I setup the taxes for my state so that it will be different for each county/region (assuming I can find a chart)? How does Zen Cart know which region they are in? Do I need to define it by zip code? I'm just a little confused by the taxing section. All the examples I have found (so far) seem to be based on the state level instead of the finer grain system I'm dealing with.

Thanks in advance for any help, advice, pointers to documents, etc.

[hossbronco]

Have you considered finding the maximum tax and applying it across the state? It may not be worth the complexity of dividing it up by counties, etc.

[castellian]

Have you considered finding the maximum tax and applying it across the state? It may not be worth the complexity of dividing it up by counties, etc.

Yep, I have but that would over charge a good chunk of the state and probably is technically illegal, although I doubt the state would come after me for sending them too much tax.

Before I go down that road I figured I would see if there is something I'm missing. There has to be many other states (or political regions in other countries) that have similar setups.