Tax rate questions

[schatham]

I have a question about using tax rate in OS Commerce, and if/how you can do it using multiple tax rates.

 

Where I live, there are 3 taxes I have to apply, two of which are based on product.

 

Here are a couple of examples:

 

Customer X buys a book (Tax rate 1 & Tax rate 3) for a total of 6.75% + 1.0%.

Customer X also buys a bag of coffee beans (Tax rate 2) for a total of 2.0%.

 

Customer Y buys a tin of cookies (Tax rate 2) for a total of 2.0%

Customer Y also buys a Gift Certificate (no sales tax).

 

If adding these products to my website, how do I calculate Tax rate 2 for anything in a "food" category, and Tax rate 1 & 3 for anything listed as "non-food" and not include something like a gift certificate, which isn't subject to any sales tax?

 

I am trying to set up the appropriate attributes/categories for all of these cases I can think of, but need to have the tax rate apply differently for different products.

 

Any help appreciated.

[♥ecartz]

When adding a product, you can select a tax class for it. Simply put your three different kinds of product in three different tax classes (none is a valid option for the gift certificate). Then when specifying your tax rate, put it on the appropriate class.

[schatham]

When adding a product, you can select a tax class for it. Simply put your three different kinds of product in three different tax classes (none is a valid option for the gift certificate). Then when specifying your tax rate, put it on the appropriate class.

 

 

Thanks - this answered my question. I had had 2 tax rates installed, but not the tax classes - hence my confusion!!!

 

Thank you again!!

 

Steve