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Calculating Tax

Submitted by nickgs on Tue, 06/03/2008 - 13:39
nickgs
Posts: 14
 Joined: 02/25/2008

Hello. I am a little concerned with how tax works within Ubercart. I am in New York and we are required to charge tax to products shipping in the same state only. The problem is that tax rates differ by county. I need a way to query the tax rate by county/state to determine first if I need to charge tax then I need to determine what the proper tax rate is.

Is there anyone currently doing this? I have some idea's on how to do this but don't want to reinvent the wheel here.

This is obviously an extremely important piece of the e-biz puzzle.

Thanks.

Nick
permalink #1 Tue, 06/03/2008 - 14:04
gash
Posts: 70
 Joined: 04/14/2008

I would check with your state comptroller's office to see if you have to collect tax for the county in which your customer resides (i.e. county of billing/delivery address), or just for the county in which your business resides. Most states do the later, but some do vary tax rate by customer county (like florida, if I'm not mistaken). If you do indeed have to vary the tax rate based on your customer's county, you can add a workflow item for each county in the tax calculation to do this for you. If will be a bit of a pain (you'll need 62 items to reflect the tax rates for each of the 62 counties in NY), but can be done easily enough.