Tax Rules Questions/Problems

[keencs]

Hello,

 

I am attempting to setup the tax rules for my state but am having difficulty. The documentation doesn't really say anything about the various rules level1/2 (that I could find) or how they work.

 

It looks like rules are applied based on a user's state. The problem I am encountering here is that various counties in my state have different tax rates. I need to collect a base tax rate for the state, then additional rates for each county...

 

I am looking for a means of automatically determining the correct tax rate for each customer, I would imagine this is a common problem (I can't live in the only state with many tax rates) but I can't find any documentation on the subject.

 

Any ideas?

 

Ryan

[keefe007]

Same here! We need county support! City tax should also be supported because there are some cities with extra sales tax.

[keencs]

I came up with a workaround for this.

 

I wrote a hook that ran any time a user registered for an account. When the registered the hook determined their county and changed their state to the format "State/County". I then had to setup tax information for every "State/County" where I am required to collect tax.

 

With the recent update I set the state field to locked so they had to open a support ticket to change their state. I supposed I could edit the hook to run any time a user updated their address, but just didn't have time yet.

 

There are cities (fortunately I don't have any) that collect their own sales tax or stadium tax. I imagine this could be adapted to do the same ("State/County/City") or the like..

 

It was a lot of work, but I needed it.

 

Ryan

[BumpaRoy]

Can you tell me how you did this? Need the same capability.