robr Posted July 8, 2003 Share Posted July 8, 2003 I know this has been posted before but I cannot find it so apologies for once more I have the UK postal rates contribution and everything is great except that VAT is not added to the shipping charges. The order totals are set as: sub total 0 shipping 1 tax 2 total 3 Any help appreciated Rob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 11, 2003 Share Posted November 11, 2003 Hi Rob, did you ever get this to work? I have the contribution working, but as you say, it does not add VAT to the shipping. Cheers Chris Thomas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 12, 2003 Share Posted November 12, 2003 I have this working now. The UK postal rate contribution doesn't have an option to charge tax on the shipping. If you take the original zone.php that comes with the install of osCommerce 2.2 MS2 and change the number of zones to 4, you can copy the postal rates and countries from the contribution and paste them into the admin shipping. You have an option there to specify that the shipping has tax. HTH Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 13, 2003 Share Posted November 13, 2003 thats all sounds great Chris and solved a big problem of mine..... while I'm here, do you know if its easy to add say an extra 2 or 3 zones to the default 4? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OMalleys Posted December 28, 2003 Share Posted December 28, 2003 As far as I am aware VAT is not applicable to postal prices in UK (Royal Mail that is). VAT is charged by couriers but if you're using royal mail tables then you should not be adding vat to their prices...... could be wrong but this is my understanding! David Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radders Posted March 14, 2004 Share Posted March 14, 2004 You are partly right! Only if you charge the exactly correct amount for postage (and not P&P) are you able to ignore the VAT. That seems hard to do unless you know the weights of your items very precisely or add the postage later. I see some stores cope with this byb including postage in the price. Not quite sure how that works though! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 7, 2004 Share Posted April 7, 2004 I have been talking to both HM Customs and Excise and my accountant. If you are mailing products to customers as part of your service, you should charge VAT on the postage, regardless of whether you use Royal Mail or not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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