Taxes only apply to orders over a certain amount??

Hi Zenners,

Is it possible to add 10% GST for orders over a certain amount only, e.g. $1500?
e.g. most transactions would not have tax as most products on our site are under this value, but taxes do apply on some wholesale orders so can we set the cart to add the tax at checkout (to the total amount, including the shipping of course)??

Also can I have certain products marked as TAXABLE (e.g. in my case a few very expensive products like those that are over $1500 each etc) and those ones show both an Ex-Tax Price (in red, for USA/UK customers) and an Inc 10% GST Price (green) for my AUST customers that I have to charge the tax too?

regards,
Dave

I'd also love to know this!! The bit about tax only above a certain amount, that is.

apemusic:

Is it possible to add 10% GST for orders over a certain amount only, e.g. $1500?
e.g. most transactions would not have tax as most products on our site are under this value, but taxes do apply on some wholesale orders so can we set the cart to add the tax at checkout (to the total amount, including the shipping of course)??

There is no built-in ability to calculate tax only on orders over a certain amount. Although, custom coding could be written to handle that on a case-by-case basis.

apemusic:

Also can I have certain products marked as TAXABLE (e.g. in my case a few very expensive products like those that are over $1500 each etc) and those ones show both an Ex-Tax Price (in red, for USA/UK customers) and an Inc 10% GST Price (green) for my AUST customers that I have to charge the tax too?

In terms of marking certain products taxable or not, esp based on what zone a customer is in, you can do that simply by setting up an appropriate tax class (perhaps called NonTaxable) and link it to the zone where no charge is applicable, and give it a rate of 0. And then use the default TaxableGoods class, tied to a taxable zone and appropriate tax rate, to handle those who "should" be taxed.

Hmm. So it is possible to custom code a particular tax class to only kick in after a certain amount or would it have to be custom coded for particular products?

1. You already link tax classes to products. Go to Admin->Catalog->Products/Categories, and edit a product. Note the tax-class setting next to the price field.

2. Yes, you could write custom code to only trigger if an order is over a certain item. You could write further complicated custom code to trigger only for certain tax classes.

DrByte:

1. You already link tax classes to products. Go to Admin->Catalog->Products/Categories, and edit a product. Note the tax-class setting next to the price field.

2. Yes, you could write custom code to only trigger if an order is over a certain item. You could write further complicated custom code to trigger only for certain tax classes.

Hello Dr. Byte,

Can you give any guidance on how #2 above could be achieved? I have the same requirement and have already done the first step above.

thanks,
Don

Hi All,
Newbie zencarter here .. i picked up admin responsibilities for a site and found the tax set up to be quite wrong / messy. So far ZenCart is remarkably easy to use and follow in pretty much all respects but in order to recent changes in NYC tax rates, I need to implement a 'variable' tax rate where the new rate of 4.375% is applied if and only if the purchase is greater than a certain threshold. Can you please elaborate on where and how to add the necessary custom code for this functionality to be inserted? I'm not afraid of writing code at all and will be happy to share what i learn but at the moment I am really just getting up to speed on all the modules, etc. Please help! Thank you!

I'm still interested in this. If someone could point me to the particular file that would need to be edited, I'd be happy to try my VERY rudimentary PHP skills at the issue!