Is anyone running a store in New York State using Ubercart. I am looking for a sales tax solution, and I would love to know if someone has one already. If someone doesn't, perhaps there are other people out there who need one, and we could work together on a module.
Thu, 06/04/2009 - 16:09
Re: New York State Taxes
You don't need to keep posting the same thread. If no one's responding, that's probably your answer...
I guess I am a bit surprised
I guess I am a bit surprised that no one else has run across this.
Stop Gap Solution
If anyone is wondering about new York State Sales tax and Ubercart. I looked into it a bit, but ended up just working around it.
More information can be found at http://www.sevenshadow.com/2009-06-10-ubercart-new-york-state-sales-tax.
Re: Stop Gap Solution
I have worked on a Florida Surtax module to handle a similar situation. In the end, there does not appear to be a perfect solution. The module tries to determine the delivery county by doing a database lookup and matching the zipcode to a county. Unfortunately, some zipcodes occur in more than one county. In this rare case, we simply return the first match.
To further complicate things, Florida also has a $5000 surtax cap and uses a so called 'bracket system' to calculate taxes on non-whole-dollar sale amounts.
In my research, this was the best method that I have come up with. The module is very simple and someone with a little DRUPAL/PHP/SQL knowledge should be able to easily modify it for other states with similar county tax situations.
The Drupal 6 / Ubercart 2 Florida Surtax module can be found at: http://drupal.org/project/uc_taxes_floridasurtax
Me too
I am having a similar problem.. I actually took your advice setfree and modified your FL module. It's working just fine, but now my client wants to have an automated solution to deal with rate changes. I'm curious to know if you've considered this. How do you, or anyone else for that matter, handle the need to periodically update all those rates? Are you doing it manually?
Is anyone using/integrating automated services for this?
Here's an example: http://www.avalara.com/Sales-Tax-Software/Integrations/Sales-Tax-SDK
If anyone's interested in the NY State module that I am using now I am happy to share. I'm somewhat of a newbie so I don't really know all the protocol for providing files to the community...
Re: Me too
Tax rates are changed no more than once a year and I will handle those through a module update that will simply update the appropriate records in the tax look up table. There are a couple of UC modules available that handle tax look ups using automated services:
http://drupal.org/project/so_taxes
http://drupal.org/project/stc_taxes
...but from my experience they are either a paid subscription service, or do not handle Florida's specific calculation methods, like tax brackets and the $5000 surtax cap.
NY State Sales Tax Module
Hi Krivers,
I would really appreciate in your NY state module. Is there a way I can download it?
Thanks so much.
The answer is here
The *.install file needs to be verified/updated for 2011 rates, but I confirm that this works for NY - live on my site
