Tax rate per country/zone

[bins]

I m a bit of a noob, but managed to set up a store using the core files and several contributions (what a great family OSCers are!). There is one thing I cant work out (which is probably obvious).

 

I the UK, if we send some locally, we have to charge sales tax/VAT (at the relevant rate, e.g. 17.5%).

 

If we send outside the UK, we do not charge VAT.

 

We have 4 tax rates:

Zero rated - 0%

reduced - 5%

Full - 17%

exempt - 0%

(all of these are set up on my system)

 

How can I make the invoice payments system recognise whether tax in chargeable or not i.e.:

if delivery is UK - charge relevant item tax

if outside UK - exempt (or 0%)

(note - this is destination driven, not invoice)

 

I have searched the forems etc, but cant find anything releveant - there must be a simple solution I'm missing!

 

I am using the Royal Mail Postage contrib, if this helps.

 

Thans in advance.

 

Paul

[Guest]

This is determined by tax zones. You should have one tax zone that covers the UK. So if you goto your osc admin->Location Taxes->Tax Zones You could add entries to set the UK beneath a tax folder. Then in the Tax Rates you specify the tax rate (the vat in your case) for your tax class.

 

Then when a customer logs in depending on the delivery location he specified he will see the appropriate tax rate