[SOLVED] Doing a Happy Dance!!!! Still cannot get US State Tax to work - 2 days working on this

[dixie]

I have followed the wiki to the letter. My products still show the words tax incl. on each product page, whether I am logged in for the taxed state or not. Example: I have a product for $8.00. Home page shows it as $8.00, but when I go to the details page, it reads $8.00 tax incl. The product is set for no tax. When I log in using the taxed state, the product prices are listed $8.64 tax incl. (correct for my 8% tax). The check out page lists the product price a $8.64. How do I get the list price to read $8.00, then add the .64 tax to the subtotal? I need the product price to be $8.00 on all pages until checkout, then the tax be added to the subtotal --not the product price of $8.00. I'm very close to pulling my hair out!! I hope someone from can help me. Thank you.

[mytheory.]

Are you sure you set the "Display Price" option to "Tax Excluded" in the BO? Preferences tab >> Products >> Display Prices. This usually does the trick, but its not always perfect... especially with attributes and little things here and there. For the US market, I highly recommend using Tomerg3's "Tax on one line" modification. It fixes all the issues and the price relatively cheap.

HTH!

[dixie]

how do get that mod? Thank You

[mytheory.]

You can find it at www.presto-changeo.com
I should note that this is not a module, but a modification -- which means you will have to edit various lines from the core files. If you shop is fairly "stock" he includes the files that you can just copy and paste over, but if you've modified those files you'll probably want to just edit the lines that were modified.

However, its well worth it!

[dixie]

In reply to the following suggestion below.

Are you sure you set the “Display Price” option to “Tax Excluded” in the BO? Preferences tab >> Products >> Display Prices.

I do not have that choice in my Back Office. There is no Display Prices Option. Could this be a bug in the new release?

[mytheory.]

Hmm...

Yea you are right, I just tried the demo and that option is no longer there for 1.3.

I'm using 1.2.5, and haven't really tried 1.3. Maybe somebody who has more experience with 1.3 could give some insight into how tax included and tax excluded prices are being handled in the new version?

[razaro]

In Back Office >> Customers >> Groups and click on edit icon.
Then choose Price display method Tax excluded.

[dixie]

I have done all that I know to do - still does not work correctly for US State Sales Tax. Maybe I am expecting something different in the way that Prestashop works.

When the sales tax is working properly for the US, is the tax supposed to be added on each individual product in the shopping cart? Example for fabric that is $8.00 and sales tax is 8%. Is the following the way that is supposed to show in the shopping cart?
Fabric $8.64
Shipping 1.00
Total Tax .64
Total $9.64

What I would like the cart to show is the following:
Fabric $8.00
Shipping 1.00
Total Tax .64
Total $9.64

Is this possible?

[mytheory.]

Where exactly are you trying to change it so that those line items appear that way? The cart? Invoice?

You would have to modify each of those files to make those adjustments to call the price without tax... It's been awhile since I've used the default version of PS (I've implemented Tomer's Tax on one line mod) but if I do remember correctly, yes, PS outputs the prices with the tax in the cart, and has another line item for the tax... I agree this may be confusing to some of your customers.

Tomer's Tax on one line mod fixes all these issues from the block cart to checkout to your invoices... If I were you I would really consider implementing it... read the reviews and posts for the mod.

To implement an overhaul change like this would be difficult to explain since it modifies multiple files that passes the prices within the system. However, if you're only concerned about having the tax excluded price appear for a particular section (for example your shopping cart) of PS I maybe able help.

[ScubaLessonsInc]

You can change the text in the translations tab under your language, then front office and scroll down.. you can use CNTRL F to find the text then edit it.. to say what you want.. we changed ours to USD instead.. so we don't have to bother with it anymore.