Local Sales Tax Mod - Support Thread

[retched]

Looking for help.

Running the module, as is, running into two problems.

First, the module is adding the result local sales tax twice. I configured it for New York City which is New York State's 4% Sales Tax + NYC's 4.875%. Which totals 8.875%.

However, running an order through: The total tax being calculated is: The "state" sales tax of 4% + The City Tax of 4.875% + The City Tax of 4.875%. I went through and made sure the entry for the City was only entered once. But I cannot see where to stop the tax is being calculated twice.

Additionally, when the order is ran against a payment module: say PayPal, Stripe, Square, etc., the local sales tax module is completely bypassed and ignored.

Debugging the cart, I can see the per item tax is being calculated as 13.75% (aka 4% + 4.875% + 4.875%) and that the tax description is "State Tax + County Tax + County Tax".


Looking for any assistance on the matter.

EDIT: Seems this is kind of a known issue of sorts (https://www.zen-cart.com/showthread....-Sales-Tax-mod)

[njcyx]

Looking for help.

Running the module, as is, running into two problems.

First, the module is adding the result local sales tax twice. I configured it for New York City which is New York State's 4% Sales Tax + NYC's 4.875%. Which totals 8.875%.

However, running an order through: The total tax being calculated is: The "state" sales tax of 4% + The City Tax of 4.875% + The City Tax of 4.875%. I went through and made sure the entry for the City was only entered once. But I cannot see where to stop the tax is being calculated twice.

Additionally, when the order is ran against a payment module: say PayPal, Stripe, Square, etc., the local sales tax module is completely bypassed and ignored.

Debugging the cart, I can see the per item tax is being calculated as 13.75% (aka 4% + 4.875% + 4.875%) and that the tax description is "State Tax + County Tax + County Tax".


Looking for any assistance on the matter.

EDIT: Seems this is kind of a known issue of sorts (https://www.zen-cart.com/showthread....-Sales-Tax-mod)

Just my 2C.

When I installed this plug-in, I disabled the original tax rate for my state, which is under locations/taxes - Tax Rates. I set the tax rate there to 0. I didn't delete it there. Then I only use local sales tax to calculate the total tax rate for every zipcode.

I'm not sure, if I didn't disable the zc tax rate, will it be double counted or not.

For your 2nd question, I'm using paypal legacy module. So on paypal end, it cannot see how much tax was charged for every order. But the total order amount is correct (goods+shipping+tax). In the past before I installed this plug-in, I can see a separate row in paypal transaction showing the tax.

But for other places such as order confirmation email or zc back end order details, I can see a separate row for the sales tax.

[retched]

Just my 2C.

When I installed this plug-in, I disabled the original tax rate for my state, which is under locations/taxes - Tax Rates. I set the tax rate there to 0. I didn't delete it there. Then I only use local sales tax to calculate the total tax rate for every zipcode.

I'm not sure, if I didn't disable the zc tax rate, will it be double counted or not.

For your 2nd question, I'm using paypal legacy module. So on paypal end, it cannot see how much tax was charged for every order. But the total order amount is correct (goods+shipping+tax). In the past before I installed this plug-in, I can see a separate row in paypal transaction showing the tax.

But for other places such as order confirmation email or zc back end order details, I can see a separate row for the sales tax.

Actually managed to get it to work with the Squash Taxes module (they should just be combined at this point). I'm working on submitting my changes to both shortly. Still don't see why it was being added twice.

[swguy]

> Still don't see why it was being added twice.
I have seen the same issue. The order line items all look good, but the entry in orders_products.products_tax is doubled, as you note.

[lat9]

v3.0.0 of Local Sales Tax is now available for download: https://www.zen-cart.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=422

Released as a Zen Cart encapsulated plugin, supporting zc210+, EO 5.0.0+ and PHP 8.0+.

[swguy]

Small tweak: in readme_local_sales_tax.html, the h1 title is wrong. (Says "Optional/Required Shipping Insurance")

[lat9]

Small tweak: in readme_local_sales_tax.html, the h1 title is wrong. (Says "Optional/Required Shipping Insurance")

Thanks, updated on GitHub.

[retched]

For anyone trying to use the 2.5.3 uninstall script to move up to 3.0.0, there is a problem with the uninstall script:

Around line 36 in /YOUR_ADMIN/includes/init_includes/init_local_sales_taxes_uninstall.php:

if(defined(MODULE_ORDER_TOTAL_COUNTY_LOCAL_TAX_STATUS)) { 

Replace with :

if(defined('MODULE_ORDER_TOTAL_COUNTY_LOCAL_TAX_STATUS')) { 

This should clear the 500 server errors that pop up.

[lat9]

For anyone trying to use the 2.5.3 uninstall script to move up to 3.0.0, there is a problem with the uninstall script:

Around line 36 in /YOUR_ADMIN/includes/init_includes/init_local_sales_taxes_uninstall.php:

if(defined(MODULE_ORDER_TOTAL_COUNTY_LOCAL_TAX_STATUS)) { 

Replace with :

if(defined('MODULE_ORDER_TOTAL_COUNTY_LOCAL_TAX_STATUS')) { 

This should clear the 500 server errors that pop up.

FWIW, the encapsulated version takes care of the upgrade itself.