Tax

[EZorb]

How do you not charge tax to a customer that is non-taxable? Where the products are taxable to most customers and a few customers have a tax permits.

[Ajeh]

You configure your taxes to include only tax zones like for Florida so only Florida residents get taxed on taxed products but not folks in Ohio ...

[gjh42]

EZorb is referring to customers with reseller's permits who may live in a taxable zone but are exempt from paying sales tax on certain purchases (items for resale).

[dbrewster]

There is a tax-exempt module that you can add on. It does work with 1.3.0.1, I'm using it now.

The order total is slightly buggy, however. There was a mathematical discussion about a workaround to correct the error, but I didn't quite follow it.

I'm not sure where contribution downloads are found now.

---Diana
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[sarahbn]

I am having the same dilemma. I can't even install the tax exempt module because it keeps telling me I don't have the right tables in my database when I go to do the SQL patches. After reading the earlier threads on the problems with this module, though, I don't think I want to install it after all.

I don't know how to fix the math problem, but I think I can explain it (IRL I'm a math teacher). The problem is that when you add 10% and subtract 10%, you don't end up with the original amount. The 10% you add is 10% of the original amount, but the 10% you subtract is not 10% of the original, it's 10% of the new total, so it's not equal to the amount that was added. An example would be if you invite 100 people to your party and you expect that 90% will show up, you're expecting 90 people. The caterer asks how many you expect and you say 90, so he buys food for 10% more people than you expect, which is 99 (90 plus 10% of 90 which is 9.) My understanding was that the tax exempt module was doing something similar. It was adding on the sales tax as a percentage, then subtracting off the same percentage.

I don't know how to code it, but the way to work around it is instead of subtracting off a percentage, divide by 1.xx where xx is the percentage that was added on. Example: $10.00 purchase with 6% tax added gives $10.60. $10.60 divided by 1.06 yields $10.00. (I entered this into Quickbooks as a price level so that I could charge whole dollar amounts at craft fairs and include sales tax in the price, and I also used it to make reverse sales tax tables so my fellow crafters could do the same.) It sometimes ends up a cent off because of rounding, but a cent is worth the convenience.

[The Perfect Gift]

Can any one tell me how too make it so that zen taxes only the total of the cart and not each individual items??