Configuring Taxes for Canadian Sites/Zones

[s_mack]

Yep, you're right. Confirmed with my accountant WHO ALSO DIDN'T KNOW until today (a day AFTER the change) about NS!!

[DrByte]

I'd heard that all the Maritime provinces were being increased to 15%. Interesting that it's maybe only NS.

[s_mack]

Isn't it nuts that we reasonably intelligent business owners somehow didn't know this? If it were just me, I'd figure I somehow had my head in the sand and missed something in the mail... but as it is I have to say I really think our government(s) dropped the ball here. I read an article this morning that said an estimated HALF of Canadian businesses are not yet properly setup for the BC HST. Ridiculous.

[DrByte]

LOL ... true enough.
Then again, I'd advocate that if they dropped the sales tax to 0% and put the money back in the hands of the people then the people could afford to pay for the things they need instead of forcing the government to provide them to people who don't even need them. Too much time and money are wasted in administrating taxes than actually gaining benefit from collecting them. What a waste.
As you say, ridiculous.

[s_mack]

agreed 100%. I bet we could reduce our taxes by half and get double the services if we could make things perfectly efficient. I would run for PM. If I take my wife's last name I'd be Steven Harper... close enough to sneak some votes? (or close enough to catch a bullet?)

[DrByte]

Er, um, lest this thread go off into a political tangent, I'm going to refrain from opening my mouth.

[BOBBLED]

Just started new biz with Zencart.....

I cannot thank you (Dr.Byte and others) enough for this post! Saved me an entire day of work, and mental chaos!

I'm going back through the 25 pages of posts here.... in case anyone has it handy... how/where do I ad the SQL statement that was suggested by Dr. Byte on the initial post?

Is it necessary? (Has anyone not placed it?)

Thanks in advance,
K

[DrByte]

That SQL statement would only be useful if you've added a whole lot of products and didn't set the correct tax-class on them when you created them.

[ecom newbie]

First post here on the forums. I don't want to offend, and maybe I'm clueless but...

The tutorial at the start of this thread is wrong. It's clearly written but the tax rates are wrong for Eastern Canada. NS is 15%, ON, NL and NB are 13%, and BC is 12%. There is more steps and entries required.

The tutorial needs updating or I suggest taking it down altogether. Sorry to speak frankly about this, but think how many people who are newbies and are charging incorrectly. It put their reputation on the line also. Yes, they can find out for themselves, but I say the onus in on this tutorial on this zen cart forum.

In closing, this makes me skeptical of following the guides and info that I find here sadly. I do question my choice of using zen cart because the support for Canadian ecommerce is very poor.

I sound ungrateful, but I'm not. I'm just pointing out the obvious which is surprising why I can't find any mention of the tutorial being wrong. Additionally, the main zen cart guide is even more outdated than this one. Get it right or take it down.

[MsHutch]

It states at the beginning of the first post "You might find this helpful ... it needs a bit of touching-up, but the basic core is there", so I do not find it to be wrong, but merely a guide as to how to set up the taxes.