[ic] Tax Problems

[interchange-users@icdevgroup.org (Mark Bryant)]

Hi to all you IC gurus out there :o)

I'm setting interchange up to work in a UK/GB shopping environment, but 
notice that despite having set ALL my products to be NON TAXABLE, when you 
hit the checkout page and UK is the shipping country, the VAT of 17.5% is 
still being added to the order.

I followed the instructions found at this URL to the letter and everything 
works as expected, except for the tax:

http://www.webmaint.net/interchange/uksetup.html

Does anyone have any ideas why the tax settings for my products are being 
ignored and still being calculated for the UK by IC when it shouldn't be?

It is my understanding that if the tax field is set to NO on an 
item/product, it should then be exempt from the tax calculations. Only 
those set to YES should be included. This doesn't appear to be the case.

Also, this tax setup is not quite right/comprehensive enough as UK VAT also 
applies to sales made to customers in EEC countries when selling from the 
UK. Is there any way I can get IC to use the REGION code (Europe-EC) rather 
than the individual COUNTRY codes and therefore cover all the EEC countries 
in one go? I'm trying to avoid putting a tax rule for each country as it 
seems there should already be a better method of dealing with this.

Naturally this is assuming that I can get the initial tax calculation 
problem fixed first :o)

If it helps, I'm using IC installed from these 2 rpms:

interchange-foundation-4.8.6-1
interchange-4.8.6-1

Many thanks

Mark


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