Install Instructions:

• You need Ubercart 1.5
• copy over this install the files from ubercart-1.5eu-0.1.tar.gz, the directory structure is the same and contains also some price related contributions
• copy uc_vat_helpers into the contrib directory
• You require uc_taxes activated
• configure your store as usual
• at /admin/store/settings/store/edit/display setup the new options
  - Where to display taxes
  - Tax calculation mode
  - Display Subtotal excl. tax on Checkout (in EU mode "Show" is still broken, maybe we even don't need a configuration for it)
  For a real EU shop set all three to the second option
• create a B2B role (for outside your country), tax rates & configure them at WF_ng
• Create Products (Insert Price still w/o VAT!), test and provide feedback. Beside the Display VAT issues I am also interested if I messed up sth in the US mode...

Note: Discounts still do not support Attributes, this is an Discounts issue. There are also issues between Discounts and Taxes, so please take it more as a concept where Uber Tuber should go.

Both Drupal as well as Ubercart are about flexibility. The price for it is sometime a little more configuration. In case of UC 1.x this means learn Workflow_ng. Maybe it is not too intuitive, but if you once understood it, the setup is done in minutes.

Configure taxes

• Setup one or more tax rates (incl. for which content type it applies)
• Create a new role B2B (outside your country)
• Go to Workflow_ng, click on the left side on this tax rule
• All you have to do is "Add a condition":
  - "User role(s)" => check NEGATE, "Select role(s)" B2B (outside your country)
  - The second rule which might be of interest is "Check an order's shipping country"

That's all, the business customer just has to have the role.

If you would come up with a usable solution regarding the VAT number issue, you can count on any support possible, e.g. for how to update the user role to B2B through WF_ng in case of successful verification

Just an idea btw: Probably it will be better to ask professional customers to register before checkout and do the verification there. But if you want to go through the regular checkout it should be possible to add a check box "I am a professional customer" to the Country Block (uc_vat_helpers) and override the anonymous role by a $_SESSION['role_b2b'] or sth like that.

I will extend the Country Block and the "live" tax calculation by the check box I described, so anybody can see prices without VAT (dependent on the country he selects).

I am really looking forward for your contrib. Maybe it's still too early, but you should know that there are countries in Europe with up to 4 such numbers - I know about the Czech Republic with 2 and Slovakia with 4 numbers... If you want to do this completely, you will also have some work

@Stephanie: This incl. VAT/GST stuff we also need, it will be soon done by my contrib. The term 'VAT' will be replaceable, so nothing to do for you there. From version 0.3 however I would be very happy to get more feedback by testers

I am pretty much sure we can skip at least the double configuration of 'tax calculate mode' and 'show taxes everywhere', IMO one forces the second, but maybe we need some 'what to show at checkout/orders' configuration.

customer.itpl.php: Please post details about your preferred structure, e.g. if you need for the ordered products a table with a column 'tax amount'. I'd like to offer some choice like customer.EU/AUS.itpl.php.

Hi,

I finally take time to test the experimental VAT integration and I'm happy to see lots of good ideas, however, there are still some things that need work. Here is my feedback : (tested on 0.3)

• Nice option to display tax rate message, but I would provide a non-javascript box. Just a html div to add to the display price, because it's far more simple to add a little JS function that show that div when you rollover the price than remove the JS stuff
• You should remove the "Where to display tax option", it is directly dependant of the "Tax calculation mode" option. You cannot choose a per product tax calculation mode and display tax on checkout (Because it show the product with tax in the product page, and show the product excluding tax on the cart = totally non-sense). And you cannot set tax calculation on checkout and display the price including tax on the product page cause it brings $0 problem (and it's normal as tax don't exist yet on the product page)
  That's why I think the Tax calculation mode should define where the tax is displayed too.
• When you set tax per product and display tax everywhere, the first subtotal on the checkout preview screen should be excluding tax cause it's a preview of an invoice and an invoice is calculated like that. Actually we have that :
  Subtotal : 15 (the subtotal include the tax)
  Shipping : 2
  Tax : 5
  Total : 17

  We should have that
  Subtotal : 10 (Subtotal should be excludin tax, even if the cart on the top of checkout page is including tax, so it need to alter the core subtotal calculation).
  Shipping : 2
  Tax : 5
  Total : 17
  You could add the option in the store setting to let the user choose, but I think the second way is always the better

• I didn't see what the "Display Subtotal excl. tax on Checkout: " do...
• Good idea to directly show the shipping quote including tax on the quote pane, but the line item is displayed excluding tax. It's strange. In addition, this should be an option.
• To a more general rule, I think line item role is to be a preview of an invoice. On an invoice, you would have each line with price excluding taxes, then, a subtotal excluding tax, and then the total of the taxes that apply. That's why I would suggest to not display price including taxes on line items.
• I saw you created some .eu invoices, but they seems not finished, I think it's a work in progress. I just would suggest to display products like that (cause it's required for per product tax calculation generally)

  Qty Product name Unit price excluding tax Tax rate Tax amount Unit price includin tax Total (unit inc.tax * qty)

• On a per product calculation setting, it would be a nice addition to associate a tax array to the node object on hook_nodeapi() load case: This entry would include an array like that : array('VAT 1' => array('rate' => 5%, 'amount' => 2.95), 'VAT2' => array('rate' => 10%, 'amount' => 6.47)) etc...
  Basically, an array of all taxes rules that apply to the product containing the rate of the tax and the amount of the tax for 1 quantity of that product. This would allow easier customization for shop owner for example, custom the invoice. This would increase performances too to not be obliged to make a querry in the database to get a tax amount associated to a product, you would just get it in the node object.
• I think that's all

But Great work !

zmove

Hi, thank you for your quick feedback. No problem, if new stuff is released, I will test it ASAP.

1. Ok for Raw CSS, Good ! In fact, if it's easily modifiable, all is good. ^^
2. Ok, we are agree on that point, letting this option will only confuse users and make things not working ^^
3. For the third point, both opinion are viable, I made a quick brainstorming with our accountant that confirm that, for her, it's better to see subtotal excluding taxes and then, add the tax. But our society had a B2B business and a recent B2C business, so I think this is a rest of B2B activity. I saw a recent oscommerce install that works like you said, with a subtotal including tax and a tax amount just as information and not added to make the total including taxes.

   But I think both options would be available as both are viable and it's just an accountant/store owner preference. With just a checkbox option like "Display line items excluding taxes" in store setting, a store owner could configure easily the calculation behavior he want to see for line items. For sure, if he check this box, it apply to the subtotal, the shipping quote, and all line items, because it would be a non-sense to mix the way line items are calculated.

   If you don't have time to work on it, I can try to find it, I have a verrrrry close deadline ATM I will not be able to work on it before the middle of december, but as it's a critical option for me, I can try to spend some time on it, stay me informed if you plan to implement that option or not.

4. This option could become the option described above
5. Ok I will test
6. Ok I will try both case and see how the issue could be resolved
7. Hehe, 0.4 will have a lot of good things ^^
8. I don't understand very well the relation between my last suggestion and your last point, don't had tome to look through the code to see how you managed the VAT in your work, but I think adding it in the hook_nodeapi would be a good option cause it's associated to the node object on node_load and this is exactly why this hook exists. I did it for attributes recently that was submitted to the latest 6.X dev version by lyle, and it works like a charm. In addition, if I remember well, ubercart use node_load to create a cart, an order, etc... so adding the taxes on the hook_nodeapi would make it available everywhere, without querying the database. And it could be easily modifiable/customizable by modules/invoices

I stay you informed on 0.4

I've been testing 0.3 for the past few hours.

I'm currently developing a shop for a photographer based in Australia, and the GST has been causing me lots of problems. I'm not sure if it's the tax itself or the lack of proper support for common tax systems in Ubercart. Either way it doesn't really matter, and I am very happy to have found this project!

Here are my comments:

1. My tax rate is getting applied to products and attributes on the product page and in the checkout process. It is however not being displayed in the shopping cart. There should be 2 more lines on the shopping cart, one that says "tax total" and another "total" so it would be"

Subtotal - $300
tax - $30
Total - $330

That way people from other countries can see that the tax doesn't apply to them.

2. All my dollar values seemed to have gotten muddled up, before where it was "$490" now it is "$490,-" - how can I remove the ",-"?

3. Tax rates are getting applied to shipping rules, but only on the summary page, not during the "calculate quote" process, ideally the tax would be applied to the shipping quote.

Do I need to create B2B role so the tax will/won't be applied to the cart and shipping quote depending on what country the customer is from. At the moment I haven';t created the b2b role as I'm not worried about showing customers the price incl tax during the order process.

thanks again for the great development work!

I realise now that I was using a custom uc_cart_view_table in my template php, added the vat/gst code from uc_cart.module and the shopping cart is now displaying prices with tax included.

As for the ",-" I was able to remove it be editing uc_store.module, line 1974 on version 0.3.

Download 0.3 from the first page, it's in the list of files.

hey, are your vat contributions views compatible?

I've hacked the product.module to get views display pricing with vat. Works nice so far, but I didn't have the time to make a real contribution out of it, yet. Would it be something for your European VAT contrib?

And I've also a hacked version of the quote.js to display the shipping quotes including vat in cart (estimated shipping cost) and checkout (calculate shipping cost).

Just hardcoded, as i said, but if someone is interested, just pm.

I'm also keen on progress in this topic, and willing to add weight to the car(t).
Übercart is now at 5.x-1.6 whilst Al mentioned 1.5 as required, and no new files are released in this forum topic (although a 0.4 release is mentioned).
Can someone please post an update where matters are now? Much appreciated.