Taxes - setup county, state and out of state!

[jacaranda]

G'day all,

I just installed Oscommerce on my laptop and have configured it without a glitch. My only problem is how it calculates taxes, most of us in the US will need to have 3 seperate rates - My case, Boulder tax, Colorado tax then out of state tax. I don't see an easy way to do this. Seems like this is a problem. I've looked at some of contributed moduels but don't really understand em. Why all the hi tech goodies when the most fundamental requirement is not there - easy tax setup ??? Even my crappy hosted website shopping cart can have a pulldown that asks me if I'm in the city of boulder, colorado or out of state.

 

Well enough of the bitchin' tell me how to setup taxes pleasel. Taxes on zip codes would be nice - 80301, 80302 etc for boulder would get 7%, any other 8**** would be colorado and get 3.5% then the rest zero.

I don't see how it know what county I'm - from the city name. I assume it can read the CO or Colorado and apply the rate on that (I've got this working)

 

Otherwist bloody well done - was a breeze to setup and seems powerful enough. Perhaps I might have to get off my lazy ass and delve into the code :( - at least I can charge the client more then :)

 

Cheers

R

[gcullins]

Hi-dee-ho, neighbor! I'm just a stone's throw North of you, in Fort Collins. Humid today, isn't it???

 

Anyway, I had the same dilema as you. The only way I was able to get around it (and I'm still working on it) was to modify a contribution that helps you set up a county tax. I'm taking it and adding a city tax. I'm still working out the glitches, but I think it's going to work.

 

The contribution is here:

County Tax By Zip Code

 

Basically, you're using the customer's zip code to match set of zip codes you hard code into osCommerce. I took what the contribution had and threw all of the county zip codes into an array, then compared the customer's zip code to the array to look for the match. As for the city, I haven't done it, yet, but I will be using a regular expression (for speed) to match all zip codes for Fort Collins. State of Colorado should be handled by osCommerce by default (the one tax it does handle out of the box).

 

Hope that helps!

 

G

[Miguel863]

Why are you setting up out of state? Is there information you can share as to why you are doing this? I found that you should only charge taxes with in the state you reside in and if the buyer is from where you physical store is located at?

 

Just curious?

[gcullins]

My case, Boulder tax, Colorado tax then out of state tax.

I'm assuming he meant "...then our state tax..."

 

We've got up to three taxes that we need to assess, depending on your location relative to that of the business.

[Guest]

This is obviously going to be an issue for many people who are not charging tax correctly. Here in Florida the rate is different for each county... Will this mod allow me to set different tax rates for each zip code in my state?

[Guest]

Oh joy! I found a mod that works just perfect!! :)

 

http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,2046

[getyourgold]

Hi,

 

I'm also in Colorado (Thornton) and am just setting up shop for the first time.

 

I'm also going to need to input the same tax info for counties and cities.

 

I do believe that out of state sales are not to be taxed but if someone knows differently, please let me know.

 

I did a search of "Colorado" in the contributions and came up with nothing, so there may not be any tax infor for CO. yet.

 

Let me know if you find an easy solution.

 

Thanks