Originally Posted by
RodG
Hopefully you realise that there are two different tax issues at play here. One of them relates to whether tax is charged on your products, the other determines whether tax needs to be charged on shipping.
In both cases in order for tax to be correctly charged you need to specify the non-taxed rate in the product costs, and then declare them as taxable items within Australia (using the Tax zones).
As for taxation charges on shipping costs, these should calculate correctly as long as the basis of shipping tax is set to 'shipping' and you enter the correct shipping rates (non taxed), however, if you are using the 'original' AustPost shipping module I think you'll find the shipping tax will be incorrect. This is one of the things I fixed in the Austpost "Improved" module. The problem was that the quotes obtained from the austpost server always included GST for Australian type services, and was exclusive of GST for overseas type services. The zencart 'totals' module had no way to determine which prices had GST and which didn't. It based its calculations based on the admin settings. As such, to make the tax 'work' correctly, the AustPost 'improved' module includes code to firstly determine wether GST is required or not, and if so it substracts the GST amount from the quote given by the Aust Post server so that when zen-cart totals the costs and adds Taxes the correct results are produced.
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