Lost American trying to set up VAT for someone

**schwimwastaken** · 14 Jun 2006, 03:32 AM

Hi there guys,

I've set up this cart a couple of times, and to date, defining taxes has been easy for me because it was state tax, and really didn't cause a problem.

I am trying to help someone set up a cart located in the Netherlands, and I'm having a problem settting up VAT(BTW)

here's what she told me:

vat tax is called btw tax here. It is charged within Europe and is 19%

My problem is that I don't know how to define a tax for a whole country. The dropdown when looking at the FL tax only shows Florida, so I imagine that I create a new zone, but how do I choose a country as the zone, or is that not what I'm supposed to do?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

thanks,
json

**schwimwastaken** · 15 Jun 2006, 02:04 PM

Anyone?

Do I smell funny?

**DrByte** · 16 Jun 2006, 06:02 AM

I'm no expert on VAT.
But if you read through the Canada setup you'll get an idea of how things work.

As to setting up a zone for an entire country, just do it:
- create the zone definition, give it a name/description
- click details
- add the country with all its related zones

then link that zone to the VAT/BTW tax rate of 19%

**schwimwastaken** · 21 Jun 2006, 03:03 AM

Hi there Dr.Byte, and thanks for taking the time to reply.

I read your tutorial for Canada, and it helped greatly in understanding what each aspect of the taxes, but I'm slightly befuddled concerning the VAT still.

I'm to create a tax Zone(Europe, description VAT) add each country seperately that the tax should apply to?

If this is indeed the case, does someone have a list of the countries that VAT would pertain to?

thanks,
json