Calculating tax on billable items

[tasgray]

Hi Everyone,

We are currently writing a module which will create billable items. There is a small challenge with billable items when the tax rules are set to inclusive. In this scenario, the total price has to include tax and the amount of tax will vary depending on the tax rules configured in WHMCS. Rather than extracting the tax rules in code and then calculating the tax, does WHMCS provide a function which can provide the tax for me based on the customer and amount provided? 

 

[Remitur]

The price you specify for any billable item is always excluding tax.

You can configure WHMCS (setup => payments => tax rules) in order to show to the customer the prices inclusive or exclusive of VAT.

But later it's a matter of WHMCS decide what tax has to be applied, calculate it and apply it... you works always on prices excluding taxes.

[tasgray]

On 5/2/2018 at 2:45 AM, Remitur said:

The price you specify for any billable item is always excluding tax.

You can configure WHMCS (setup => payments => tax rules) in order to show to the customer the prices inclusive or exclusive of VAT.

But later it's a matter of WHMCS decide what tax has to be applied, calculate it and apply it... you works always on prices excluding taxes.

Hi Remitur,

When tax type is set to inclusive, billable item prices include tax. There is no way to override that behaviour. If the tax rules are complex it becomes difficult to calculate, and also redundant. It would be much easier if WHMCS gave us an API method to calculate tax for a given customer.