tax fixed amount

[bulgroz]

Hi all,

 

some products here require a fixed tax added to their price, and I can't find any way to do this with osCommerce, everything seems to be a rate. Do I miss something ?

 

Thanks,

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R?mi

[Guest]

Why not setting up the products price to include that fixed tax amount and then setup the tax zone for these products to none so no rates are added.

 

To take this a step further you could instead create a new class for the order total modules and manipulate the total price. But if its just a couple of items then you could try the first approach.

[bulgroz]

Why not setting up the products price to include that fixed tax amount and then setup the tax zone for these products to none so no rates are added.

 

To take this a step further you could instead create a new class for the order total modules and manipulate the total price. But if its just a couple of items then you could try the first approach.

 

Yep it's juste some groups of items (mainly batteries), so I can't manipulate the whole shop with the order total module.

 

Most shops here list those items tax exluded and only add the taxes at checkout time. If I list those items tax included, the price will be higher, and I'll stop selling them, which is "A Bad Thing TM".

 

I need to be able to list those items tax excluded and add the tax automatically.

 

Thanks anyway,

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R?mi

[GraphicsGuy]

Just creatively brainstorming here, I've never tried anything like this. But you could setup a separate tax class for each of the "fixed tax" items. Figure out the rate that would need to be applied to the items price to achieve the correct fixed tax amount and set that as the tax rate for that class. Then set up the tax zone that class will apply to.

 

Maintaining the correct amounts as prices change will be tedious, but outside of a solution like that it would likely take significant custom coding to create special taxes for those products.

 

hth

[bulgroz]

Just creatively brainstorming here, I've never tried anything like this. But you could setup a separate tax class for each of the "fixed tax" items. Figure out the rate that would need to be applied to the items price to achieve the correct fixed tax amount and set that as the tax rate for that class. Then set up the tax zone that class will apply to.

 

Maintaining the correct amounts as prices change will be tedious, but outside of a solution like that it would likely take significant custom coding to create special taxes for those products.

 

hth

 

Argh, nice one, try again :-)

 

Seriously, I'll have hundreds of these products, it would be impossible to manage.

 

I'll investigate linked articles, so when someone buys one of those items, the cart will automatically add the corresponding number of "tax items". If anyone knows about a contribution like this, I'm all ears :-)

 

Thanks,

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R?mi