Re: Multiple Salestaxes

[mikeh@minivend.com]

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Quoting billb (billb@vrmetro.com):
> Hi all,
>             I have a new problem. One of the catalogs I set up is for a
>             Tobacco shop. The shop is located in Michigan, which has a 16%
>             tobacco sales tax on top of our normal 6% sales tax. 
> 
>             I have the checkout.html detecting if an item ordered is a
>             tobacco product. Now I need the right direction to head in so
>             that I can either place perl code that will calculate the tax for
>             that specific item, or a way to call a routine that can. In both
>             cases, the code to do such a thing eludes me. 
> 
>             I may be totally off on this as it may not be possible at all. I
>             would really rather not make a seperate catalog just for MI
>             buyers that would have the products just tagged as nontaxable and
>             incorporate the tax into the price if I don't have to. Could
>             someone point me in the right direction with this? Any help would
>             be greatly appreciated.
> 

I see lots of questions like this, perhaps this can be made into
an FAQ (if I ever get some time!).

This is where mv_handling is supposed to help.

In catalog.cfg:

Variable  CHECK_TOBACCO  <<EOF
[calc]
    [item-list]
        [if-data products tobacco]
            [item-subtotal noformat] +
        [/if-data]
    [/item-list]
    0;
    # Add 0 to make calculation come out OK with trailing plus.
[/calc]
EOF

In shipping.asc:

tobacco	Tobacco Tax	__CHECK_TOBACCO__	0.01	100000	f @@TOTAL@@ * .16

In your products.asc, add a field "tobacco" that is set non-blank
if a tobacco product.

And finally in your checkout before your total calculation:

    [if value state eq 'MI']
    <!-- Set tax for MI: [value name=mv_handling set="tobacco"] -->
        Tobacco tax for MI: [shipping tobacco]
    [else]
        [value name=mv_handling set=""]
    [/else]
    [/if]

There are other ways to do this type of thing, notably writing
a cart parsing routine that adds another item (nontaxable!) to
the cart.

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