I'm solving issue related to showing prices with TAX in basket. I have configured some tax rules for UK countrym which is 20%. In fronend I can see prices with tax. That's fine. But when I added a product to basket them it's displayed without tax amount, but it would as I enabled in backend.
My configuration is
TAX depends on delivery address
I specified default delivery address in backend, country = GB, region = *, postcode = *
I would expect: If I dont specify any delivery address then default delivery address would be used.
So I went depper I found that there are methods Mage_Sales_Model_Quote->collectTotals() and $address->collectTotals() which operates with Country, Region and postcode. Their values are Country = GB, region is empty, postcode is empty. That's the reason why Mage_Tax_Model_Calculation::getRate returns 0 tax rate.
I can override this function and but there default delivery address configuration but I'm not sure whether I break anything or nor :)
Is it standard behaviour or is it bug?
It's not a bug. I see you are using the UK language pack so I'll answer using the terms from that.
Either you have configured something wrongly in the backend (have you set basket prices to display inclusive of tax in Config->Sales->VAT->Shopping Basket Display settings?) or your
theme has been set up badly and deliberately displays prices without tax in the cart even if you have set the config so they should be included.
Magento handles UK/EU inclusive tax setup really well, don't go down the rabbit hole of trying to alter the core for this.
Switch themes and see if that solves it. Your templates/checkout/cart.phtml file should contain a series of conditionals which checks the config settings and displays the prices with or without tax in the cart (or both).
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I have set up a shop using Prestashop. I created a tax rule for my products and entered the VAT rates of all EU countries we sell to. When a user orders a product the VAT amount is calculated according to the address/country he entered in the checkout process, this works fine.
Unfortunately the VAT rate when the user is not connected is wrong. It should be 19% and not 17%, thus the products in the shop show wrong prices, e.g. 59,97 € instead of 60 €.
I haven't found out how the Prestashop frontend determines the VAT rate to be used to calculate the product price. There is no default VAT rate setting and the first rate in the table (lowest ID) has a VAT rate of 19%.
Does anybody know how that works ?
Thank you very much.
You can set default tax rule for each product, when editing a product in back office.
You have the ability to decide if a visitor/guest customer group should see the prices with/without
taxes applied by using the setting in Shop Parameters > Customer Settings > Groups
(there's a "Price display method" selector there).
If you want your visitor's context country being set without having them to actually enter an address,
you should enable native Geolocation (International > Localization > Geolocation).
I found out how this works. Under International -> Localization you can set the store's default country. Set it to the country you like and the prices will be shown with the vat rate of that country if configured in the tax rules.
Have a Magento site ver. 1.7.0.2
We have one store set up for, primary is UK, but also want to offer global sales (without multiple stores setup).
So we offer 3 selectable currencies on the site: UK - GBP (main), EU - Euro, US - USD
All prices are excluding vat/tax with a vat breakdown displayed at the cart and checkout.
For UK there is 20% VAT
For EU there is also 20% with a option to add valid EU vat number (which removes the VAT)
This all works fine.
However if you select the USD currency and add a item to the cart it gives a vat breakdown (20%), even though we dont want to add tax when USD is selected.
I should note that once you do checkout and have told the site you are in the US then is correctly removes the vat/tax.
So to clarify, we want it so that if the USD currency is selected on the site no tax/vat is added to the product price in the cart.
Is this possible?
Thanks
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I would suggest setting up multi-store configuration, using a store front for each location (UK/US/EU)
This will allow you to set the default country for each sub-store and then you can make the USA the default shipping destination / country for the US store, this will immediately apply the tax rules for this country when purchasing items from the US Store Front.
You said there's no multi-store, setup, but do you have a good reason why you don't want to use this kind of setup? it will allow you to do what you need.
The issue with your setup is that there's no way for the store to know where the customer is before they either login or select during the checkout, this is because you will only have one default location for all currencies.
There may well be a way of doing it like this, but not that I know of. This is what the store front and/or multistore is meant for and good at.
I'm working with an inherited site, and after changing the tax rules so it ensured that customers from the Channel Islands who chose the UK as their country were not charged tax (using this method: http://www.jimcode.org/2011/08/guernsey-jersey-gstvat-rates-magento/ where it looks at the postcode as well), the site now calculates the catalog price incorrectly as it re-adds the tax onto the price. Eg. price in set in admin as £99.99 (incl tax), but on the frontend, it shows as £119.99 (incl tax).
My settings are:
Magento Version: 1.9.1.0
Catalog prices: Including tax
Tax Calculation Based On: Delivery Address
Default Tax Destination Calculation Default Country: United Kingdom
Enable Cross Border Trade: No
Shipping Settings Origin Country: United Kingdom
On searching where people have had a similar problem, people say to change the shipping origin country, but my tax calculation needs to be based on the delivery address.
Even if I revert my tax rules to the previous default settings, it does not fix the problem. I've reindexed, cleared cache, resaved a product, resaved the config settings ... but can't get it working.
I'm thinking that perhaps there has been some sort of corruption maybe? Do I need to run some sort of 'recalculate tax' perhaps?
In administration go to settings > sales > tax > calculation and set “tax based on” to the last item (package origin, or something like that; terms are not perfect).
Or you can change setting accordingly as you want in your cart.
If your code is perfect then you are just missing some configuration detail.
Also you can go throw all the inner tabs for tax calculation.
Turns out that in the tax_calculation_rate table, one of the rows had NULL in the tax_postcode column. In my case, it needed to be empty.
Apply Customer Tax Should be set to Before Discount
I need to setup Magento so VAT on BFPO Shipped orders are at 0% VAT.
All rules I setup are ignored and it keeps using the normal UK VAT Rule at 20%.
Or when I do get a rule to work, it then shows all products on the site without VAT.
Obviously I set it so the tax is calculated on the shipping address. But it seems to ignore this too.
Any suggestions on setting this rule?
You should be able to setup a UK tax rule with postcode rule of * at 20% VAT. Then another tax rule for postcodes with rule BFPO* at 0% VAT. Ensure both these rules are selected in the product tax class rules. When the user then sets their delivery address to contain BFPO, the site will automatically recalculate. Im not sure if it will change the price on the product page though (I think it should), but it certainly works on the cart. With regards to the products changing price and showing as ex vat, simply change your shipping quote address post code to a UK one and see if the prices return to including vat, they should do.
Here's our setup that works; (Might be worth clearing cookies and trying to retest again)
I'm trying to implement the check for VAT ids, and got stuck (the VIES check being a new feature in 1.7). I configured the VAT checks to assign users to certain customer groups - and this works perfectly.
I have 3 customer groups: Business In Romania, General and Business Outside Romania. What I want is to add a 24% VAT tax for the first 2 groups, and remove this tax completely for "Business outside Romania".
I can add taxes per country in Sales - Tax - Manage Tax Rates, but that doesn't help me since I need to add the basically for all countries.
To sum up, here's the question: How can I add taxes per customer group ?
Also, can I do this from the admin panel alone, or do I have to create my own module ?
Solution(s)
Follow the steps Andrew suggested
Another options works great if you want the products to be shown including VAT, and remove it when a valid VAT is added. You create a promotion that applies to the "Valid VAT" customer group, that gives a percent reduction of (1 - (1 / (YOUR_VAT / 100 + 1)))*100 (this will be an ugly number, but copy it with all the decimals). In this scenario, you may have a 0.01 error from time to time.
A) You use Customer Tax Classes.
1) Create a Custom Tax Class
2) Assign the tax class to a customer group.
3) Create a new Zone and Rate. Assign the Tax percentage you need. Make it work for EACH country you intend it to work for.
You will have to duplicate the rules unfortunately.
4) Create a new Rule via 'Manage Tax rules', assigning your new Tax Rate(s), Customer Tax class etc. Notice there's a multiselect to select the new rules you made for multiple countries.
Customers in your group will now get this Tax applied to them regardless of where the location is.
By default you are going to end up with some replication of rates due to Magento not allowing you to select "all" coutnries at once.
This can be done via a custom extension (i've done this before) but not as standard.
B) Alternatively you can change your settings in the magento admin:
Set the Tax calculation based on ORIGIN rather than destination. This may or may not work depending on what you need for your particular setp.
System > Config > Sales > Taxes > Calculation