Local Sales Tax Mod - Support Thread

[delia]

Okay, with the new sales tax laws being passed to grab money from online retailers, Georgia is now requiring us to collect based on the county/tax division we are shipping to. There are 179 counties and the city of Atlanta - 180 possible tax destinations. If anyone already has the information of zip codes to counties, I would really appreciate the list - the sql of course would be best but right now the only thing I've been able to retrieve is a non-alphabetized list out of html.

I've moved this cart from OsCommerce and they had it set up there but though it imports the tax classes - it does not import the zone definitions to match since Zen Cart can't do zip codes or suburbs so the local mod is my only option. (By the way the Avatax mod is best for those who have to worry about different states - I helped develop it but it is a commercial product).

And thanks to potteryhouse for updating this mod to 1.5x!

[hilltop]

I am new to ZenCart and have a new install of v150. We collect sales tax in Washington state (179 different "areas / rates") and Idaho. I am looking at adding the Local Sales Tax Module. I have a couple of questions about it.

1. Read me 2.5.5 says to rename the admin folder to match the admin folder on the website. Does that mean it overwrites the existing admin folder?

2. Is there a file format that can be used to setup the zones for the local sales tax and then import it into ZenCart?

3. If someone already has Washington state set up we'd love a copy.

I believe I have read all of the FAQs / Tutorials for the module - if I have overlooked something please point me to it.

Thanks in advance.

[skylab001]

I've installed this in my 1.3.9h cart and it works. I do have one issue though, I only use paypal express checkout for payment, I had an issue I solved by deleting my state zone and using only the local taxes. The issue I'm trying to resolve now is that it no longer shows products and amounts itemized when on paypals checkout page. The total is right though. Does anybody have a fix for this?

[slomojojo]

Here's the 2013 Florida discretionary tax rates by zipcode. Change for 2013:

Walton county changed from 7% to 7.5%. Rate table PDF is available here

These are the affected zipcodes:
32422;
32433;
32434;
32435;
32439;
32454;
32459;
32461;
32538;
32550;

[skylab001]

I've installed this in my 1.3.9h cart and it works. I do have one issue though, I only use paypal express checkout for payment, I had an issue I solved by deleting my state zone and using only the local taxes. The issue I'm trying to resolve now is that it no longer shows products and amounts itemized when on paypals checkout page. The total is right though. Does anybody have a fix for this?

I've sorted out my issues with PayPal, it seems to be on the PayPal integration side. Another issue I've discovered now though, and it seems I'm not the first, is that discount coupons don't work unless moved after the tax in the display. Has anybody figured out how to fix this?