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Hi people of the agora community!

So, I'm having a little trouble with tax setup. What I would like to do is apply the same tax to all products regardless of shipping destination and have this tax effective in the product pages (ie, the prices I enter in the database are tax exclusive and when you access a product listing page what you see is the price including taxes). I don't know if that's even doable with the agoracart. The way I understand this product is that it adds taxes when it knows the shipping destination (country, state, or even city!), which is kind of weird: shipping location is irrelevant.
When you buy a product in any country you also pay the country's vat, you don't go, like, "well I come from Arkansas, so I don't have to pay your vat".

So how would I go about setting this up?


Thank you in advance

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Henri,
Not sure if you are in the US, but in the US, taxes are based on the shipping destination.
But, tax is only applied to those shipments that are going to locations in the state from which you ship from. If a shipment goes outside of the shipper's state, then the shipper/merchant does not charge the sales tax. It is against the law to charge sales tax for a state in which you are not a registered seller or do not have a shipping location.

It may be different in the EU or other countries, but not in the US...

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scottcrew, thanks for replying.

Well ok, I get your point but I'm setting up shop in France, so everybody pays the vat regardless of where they're from or where products'll be shipped to. It seems that the agoracart was designed with the American way in mind.

So what kind of tax logic would I have to set up in order to deal with taxes independently of the shipping destination? And how?

Needless to say, I'm a little confused.

Or perhaps I should include taxes directly into the prices read from the database and forget about any "tax logic"?

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You could do that... Or you could try putting something like this in the extra tax logic:
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$city_tax = ($subtotal *0.014525);


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ok, I see. Sounds straight forward enuff.

thanks!

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