Configuring Taxes for Canadian Sites/Zones

[alanhigg]

Hello Zenners,

It's me again. I'm in the process of configuring the GST etc using the very thorough tutorial but I'm a bit confused on the "Leave PRIORITY at "1" for a non-cumulative tax (i.e. Ontario)" issue. My business is based in Red Deer, Alberta. Do I use Priorty as '1' or not?

Any help would be appreciated!

My understanding is that Alberta has no provincial sales tax, so the priority setting shouldn't be an issue (ie: 0% of subtotal, or 0% of subtotal+GST will give the same number... $0.00)

The priority setting is used when you want, for example, Tax#1 to be calculated directly on the subtotal, and Tax#2 to be calculated on subtotal+Tax#1. Since this is not what you need, just leave priority at 1 and everything should work out well.

Hope this is helpful,
Alan

[Winks]

Ok Alan i'll leave it as Priority 1.

Thanks for getting back to me!

John

[Vladimir7]

Ok I been reading through these posts and am confused about what taxes to apply to which provinces.

I should probably consult an accountant (which I probably will) but thought I would first get some info here.

The business is located in Ontario.

This is what I came up with, is this correct?

Canada GST Zone (except Eastern Canada: NS, NB, NL) 5%
Eastern Canada - HST Zone NS, NB, NL 13%
Ontario PST Zone ON 8%
?
Thanks

[sn_tobin]

thats pretty much what I have and it works fine

[s_mack]

Products price (net) $1.5873
Products price (gross) $2.00

This forum's notification system has always frustrated me. I'm subscribed to this forum so I can help out, and I didn't get any notifications until sn_tobin's last email above. That's 6 posts since Apr 22 that I had no idea they were there.

Winks... I was trying to figure out what you meant by Gross and Net... now I see. Its in the product description page, right? That thing is so beyond useless I've forgotten its there... I don't know why, but it never seems to calculate right. Just worry about the Net section. For whatever reason, the Gross calculation it does, does not (necessarily) apply the tax settings correct, but the checkout process does. I just confirmed, I have the normal settings everyone else is using here, but a Net price of $100 shows a Gross price of $125 - a 25% tax, and there's no possible way to get that.

Actually, I just figured out what its doing.

For Ontario it would be 26%, which is what your example shows (which means you have your cart set up for Ontario!! You are in Alberta so you do NOT have an Alberta tax and you DO NOT charge and Ontario tax!! The exception is EVERYONE charges HST to Atlantic and GST to everyone)

What its doing is applying ALL the taxes. For ontario: 8% PST + 5% GST + 13% HST = 26%

I suppose its because on that page it has no idea what zone you're in so it applies all the taxes that are in the system.

Kinda dumb... but forgivable I suppose.

- Steven

[DrByte]

... and was fixed in v1.3.8

[Winks]

Thanks Steven!

I'll have a look into your suggestions. I might also get a friend of mine to help me upload the new version of Zen Cart because Dr. Byte seemed to infer that might help too.

I'll let you know how I get on.

Again thank you very much for your support.

John

[s_mack]

Yeah, I'm using 1.3.7 on the store that I checked on. How'd you fix it Dr. B? Does it now go by the store's location? Just curious.

John, you probably should upgrade to the latest version. I should too - just haven't had the time, especially with all the mods I have.

Best of luck!

- Steven

[DrByte]

http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?p=523295
http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=65821

If I recall correctly it was fixed by updating one of the tax functions.
And, yes, the displayed tax calculations are still based on the store's location.

[jealouz]

Hi there, i have followed this instructions but i'm still getting ZERO for sales tax
:-(