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 8/23/2010 3:32:06 AM
arber6
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tax / GST inlcusive / exclusive defaults

I'm having a hard time working out the right mix of tax and language settings, in order to make price and tax calculations display the way that I imagine most stores would actually require them to be displayed.

By default (for users that aren't logged in) and for logged-on users with a profile country of Australia, I'd like to assume the delivery address will be in Australia, and display the tax inclusive and tax exclusive prices. If the looged-on users profile country is not Australia, I'd like the exclusive prices displayed (but I'm not bothered if the inclusive prices also display). If a user subsequently defines a shipping address in my tax area (in my instance, country = Australia), then the order total should include taxes on the products and on the shipping, and show the inclusive, exclusive and/or tax amounts. If the destination address is not in my tax area (in my instance, country <> Australia), then the order total should exclude taxes on products and shipping, and preferably show that the total is free of tax.

Has anybody got this going, and if so, which combnation of tax/language settings worked best?

 8/25/2010 2:15:18 AM
jakejakejake
1 posts


Re: tax / GST inlcusive / exclusive defaults
I just setup for NZ so very similar

DNN Admin -> Languages -> Portal Default:English Australia

Catalook -> Admin ->
Tax: 0.0
Price type: tax inclusive (we put all product/shipping price in as tax exclusive )
Store location: Australia (this is for shipping)

Catalook -> Tax zones ->
select Australia from country drop down, set tax rate just for first location in list (this will make it same rate for all au location) and tick "tax freight"

That is how I did it.

 8/26/2010 2:38:54 AM
GRL570810
146 posts
www.epicservices.com.au
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Re: tax / GST inlcusive / exclusive defaults
We've done a bunch of Australian stores. I agree with the language settings advised, but I'm not sure why you'd want to set the tax rate to 0 when we have a GST of 10%. You can choose whether or not you default to exclusive or inclusive price but I am pretty sure that by law in Australia you have to show a tax inclusive price so if you default to excl. make sure you tick the 'show addition price' option on the item pane.  Note that recent versions of Catalook require you to enter the price as exclusive regardless of which display option you use and beware of rounding errors - I enter prices to 4 DP to avoid these and this also applies to price adjustments in the POSel area.
The settings as to whether you adjust prices when claiming tax exempt status (i.e. for overseas buyers) are on the CAT_Cart options in the Tax Options section.
You will also want to adjust some of the language strings via the language editor so, for example, you replace 'Cell:' with 'Mobile:' and 'Postal Code' with 'Post Code'.
Post back here if you have any more specific questions and I'll see what I can do to help.

www.epicservices.com.au DNN websites - CATALooK specialists
 9/8/2010 3:06:33 PM
arber6
6 posts


Re: tax / GST inlcusive / exclusive defaults

Thanks for your replies.

Yes, I did set Display to inclusive, and input type to exclusive (and made the ex-tax prices 4-5 decimal places), And Australia was set up with a rate of 10%.

Everything was fine if you were logged in and your country was Australia (tax was included) and everything was fine if your country was anywhere else (tax was not included), but the problem was if you were a new visitor to the site, and not logged in.

The unregistered user might be in Australia (so the prices have to be inclusive), but they might be elsewhere, so ideally both prices should display. I eventually got it working, but I think it came down to the store location settings, or loading in the australian locale that fixed it (I'm not actually sure which did fix it), but it is now working.

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