Local Sales Tax Mod - Support Thread

Jasmel,
Unfortunately, I cant tell you for sure what may or may not work. Sometimes its trial and error.
Different options will have different results.

LadyHLG

I experimented and moved the coupon code to after the taxes and all worked as expected.

See text checkout summary:

Sub-Total : $32.85
Free Shipping Options (Free USPS First-Class Mail (Domestic or International)): $0.00
Local sales tax:$2.13
98271-8848 Local Tax 2.10%: $0.69
Discount Coupon: JMMCYBER20 : -$20.00
Total : $13.95

Is it better to give discount pre-tax or after tax? Example... lets say it was a % discount.

Hmmm... I will go this way for now. Less phone calls! :clap:

First off thanks for this mod. My taxes are totaling correctly but it is blank before the colon. I've read a few posts that said I had to fill out the description under locations/taxes-->local sales taxes and change the description there. I have done that and it still does not show up. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

engagemedia,
I will need more information before I can help.
What version of the mod do you have? What version of zen are you using?

LadyHLG

I have the Sales tax Mod installed. Tax calculates correctly by zipcode but displays all 2262 matching records. I have the NYS only table set up from the Three New York State table choices. NY ID is 194 in my setup. Not sure how to correct the display. Below is a partial copy and paste from the Step 2 page.

Step 2 of 3 - Payment Information
Billing Address:
Change Address
RC Tonewoods
Robert Cefalu
1109 Military Rd
Kenmore, NY 14217
United States
Your billing address is shown to the left. The billing address should match the address on your credit card statement. You can change the billing address by clicking the Change Address button.

Your Total Local Tax Rec ID: 1
Tax Name: - .00

Local Tax Rec ID: 2
Tax Name: - .00

Local Tax Rec ID: 2260
Tax Name: 14217 Sales Tax 8.75% - 8.939

Local Tax Rec ID: 2261
Tax Name: 14217 Sales Tax 8.75% - 8.939

Local Tax Rec ID: 2262
Tax Name: 14217 Sales Tax 8.75% - 8.939

Tax based on customer shipping zone 194
2262 matching tax zones found

$92.00
Sub-Total:

$111.10
Total:

$10.16
United Parcel Service (1 x 6.00lbs) (Ground):

$8.94
14217 Sales Tax 8.75%:

I'm sorry are you talking about the all of that extra output? You can turn that off, its the debugging, its under the Admin Order
Totals Local Tax Mod.

LadyHLG

Ok...here's my problem! The module is calculating and working just fine. The problem is in the checkout process. I'm getting what looks like debugging info in the upper right of the page at the checkout page. It's also throwing off the CSS for the page.

And then when i complete the order, there is NO confirmation page, yet that similar debugging code is listed on that page. But the order is complete since I get an email notification and the card is hit.

Can anyone help?

I can supply screenshots if you need. Thanks!

Nevermind! I figured it out. In Modules > Order Total > Local Sales Tax there's a debug option. Turned it off and we're good!

LadyHLG:

I will try to get the files to you after the holiday weekend.
I have not set this up to work with the tax exempt mod yet. I wanted to be sure it works with the new version of zen before I made any modifications beyond that.

Have a good Thanksgiving Everyone!
LadyHLG

Hi, LadyHLG,
I totally understand "haven't had time" and "paying job comes first." Thank you for the time you have been able to put toward this. I notice you sometimes have to answer the same question multiple times.

I am NOT the IT person here. I am gathering the data he needs to get sales tax up and running. We are using ZC 1.3.9d. He has downloaded the 'h' update but not gotten it up yet.

I am wondering if I have missed something. do you have the Local Sales Tax Module out for this version and I missed it? And have you yet had time to work on getting it to work with the Customer Tax Exempt module that you referenced a few posts before the one I just quoted.

I need to give the IT specific directions. Where do I find these modules if you have finished them?

Thank you,
DebraM

Hey Zenners,
I have uploaded version 2.5 of the local tax mod. When/if it is approved it can be downloaded from the addons section here.

This download will include both a full version and an upgrade, as well as compatibility files for the customer exempt mod.

PLEASE READ THE README FILE INCLUDED WITH THE MOD. I cant stress this enough!!

If you have an urgent need for the mod and can not wait for it to be added to the downloads section, please send me a PM and include an email address where you would like the mod sent to.

Finally, this version had been through limited testing, it does not overwrite any core files but as always back-up things before installing.

Happy New Year!

LadyHLG

Hello and thank you for providing us with this.
I thought I had to start writing if else statements.

For test purposes I have read the file and followed to steps to create the following for 2 different counties:

Zone
Zone definition
Tax class
Tax rate

The one issue I have is that when I try to add a test product the "Tax Class" list show multiple choices to choose from... or
if I set one tax class all the tax rates are added up making the sales tax double the cost of the goods.

Where can I find complete info on how to set this up so when a customer logs in and wants to buy the goods from their county the correct tax rate is selected automatically?

What steps am I missing? :frusty:

Thank you for your time.

Ohh and happy New Year!

:oops: Ohh wait I think I figured it out.

It seems to be working now.

I was using a customer account who's address was wrong... I had to edit the address after installing the Mod in order for it to read to correct address and apply the proper sales tax.

Thank you again for everything you have done.
BRAVO!:bigups:

Happy New Year!:laugh:

Glad to hear you figured things out.

LadyHLG

Hi, Lady HLG,
Thank you for all your work.

I was lookin through the addons for your up date and also for the "Customer Exempt' module by Numinix that you mentioned. I stumbled on "State Sales Tax Lookup" by TaxCloud. Went to their Site & to Streamlined because eventually we will want a Service. I think that the states will soon get their acts together & we will have to collect and remit sales tax to them all. We had been looking at Avalara.

Do you know anythin about this TaxCloud Service? Right now we only have NEXUS for Nebraska. We will probablly go with your mod now. But we need to look at the future. Too many jurisdictions not to use a service once we have to collect out of state.

Thank you again.

Debra

Hi Debra,
I only recently found out about the Tax Cloud myself. I haven't had the time to investigate it much, but it looks very promising. I too had looked at Avalara quite some time ago, but the cost was ridiculous for a small business. I can only hope that Tax Cloud remains free or low cost otherwise it will be just like Avalara.
Ultimately, it would be nice if my mod became obsolete and everyone could move over to the Tax Cloud method.
My suggestion is to really take a look through their site and maybe set up a test site and try out the mod and see how it works.

If you do, drop us a note and let us know how it goes.

Good Luck,

LadyHLG

Hello everyone.

I thought I would post a reply here since I have just recently completed an integration of TaxCloud into Zen Cart. The integration is installed as a "module" and configured through the admin console.

We are working on integrations with popular shopping carts to make it easier for people to get started using our free services. I still need to create an official post making this available to everyone but I thought I would give you a "heads up" here since there was some interest.

More info can be found here: http://dev.taxcloud.net/

Let me know if you have any questions.

Thanks LadyHLG for all your work. It works great on 1.3.9h and the version you sent me works great with dual pricing too! You are the best!!

Just downloaded the latest version of Zencart and need some tax help...

in KS we have to collect sales tax based on the city. I downloaded this Local Sales Tax mod, installed it, and started to enter a couple of cities and their tax rate.

The problem is, for every entry I have in the Local Sales Tax I get an output entry when checking out AND it will duplicate the tax value of the correct tax.

Example:
I currently have 3 local tax rates setup (one for three different cities) Leawood, Abbyville, and Abilene.
Item costs $10
I have my shipping address set to Leawood (city).
At checkout I get:
Sub-Total: $10
Per Item (Best Way): $2.50
Leawood Sales Tax: $0.90
Abilene Sales Tax: $0.90
Abbyville Sales Tax: $0.90
Total: $15.21

If I change the shipping address to Abilene then Leawood Sales Tax shows $0 but both Abilene and Abbyville are filled in with the abilene tax rate.

What am I missing?

With billing and shipping set to Abilene here is the debug output...
Taxing based on: Shipping
Taxing For Zone: 26
Local Tax For: Leawood
Total Tax =

test product - 10
Abilene Sales Tax - 0.815 @ 8.15
10.815
Abilene Sales TaxTotal Tax = 0.815

Abilene Sales TaxTotal Tax = 0.815

And the checkout looks like this:
Sub-Total: $10.00
Per Item (Best Way): $2.50
Leawood Sales Tax: $0.00
Abilene Sales Tax: $0.82
Abbyville Sales Tax: $0.82

Total: $14.13

If I'm entering 798 city tax rates I can't possibly have all 798 of them listed during checkout, let alone applying the incorrect tax. Hope I just missed something simple.

I read the readme file and everything else I could find. I'm lost.

thanks

I set mine up on a county level then if you have to collect an additional for a particular city then you would set the city tax on its own. So for me I have Los Angeles county so I chose zipcode as the basis for the sales tax then in the delimited list I put something like this (this is only a fraction of the zipcode but you get the idea):

90001;90002;90003;90004;90005;90006;90007;90008;90009;90010;90011;90012;90013;90014;90015;90016;90017;90018;90019;90020;90021;90022;90023;90024;90025;90026;90027;90028;90029;90030;90031;90032;90033;90034;90035;

Then I put the county tax rate of 1.50

If you have to collect an addition amount for a particular city then you would set this particular city as its own - but make sure the zipcodes for this city is in the county level too! That way they add together to get the correct amount.

So then it would display the county tax then under it would be the city tax.

This worked for me!

Hope this helps.

Lady HLG - my local sales tax is not showing up at all - it doesn't matter if the person is tax exempt or not.

I am not sure why this is happening - it is so bizarre that it is just stopped even working.

HELP!:cry:

supersnow,
If the tax has suddenly stopped showing up I guess the obvious first question is have you made any recent changes that might be causing problems?

CMJohn,
My first suggestion would be to check your tax settings, look under Configuration -> My Store -> Basis of Product Tax is this set to shipping, billing or store? If you are taxing based on the ship to city then it should be shipping.

LadyHLG