[Solved] Florida surtax not working

[Diana Hansen]

Hello all,

 

My combined taxes are not working.

 

The situation is as follows: I only ship to the USA. For this, I created a new zone called "USA only" which includes one country: United States. I use this zone for all carriers. 

 

I am creating a list of surtaxes for Florida which I need to apply according to the county where my products are shipped to.

 

Example:

 

If I ship a box of flowers to Sarasota zip code 34238, I need to apply Florida's 6% tax plus a surtax of 1% for this specific county.

 

I created a new tax in BO called "Sales taxes US-FL Sarasota 1%" (please see attached image)

 

Then, I created a new tax rule called "US-FL Sarasota 1%" (please see attached image)

 

Nevertheless, the Shopping-Cart summary only adds the 6% Florida Sales tax and not the 1% Surtax. (please see attached image)

 

What could I be missing? 

 

Please Help.

 

Edited March 28, 2017 by Diana EFB (see edit history)

[Diana Hansen]

Hello everyone,

 

For those of you looking for information about how to implement combined taxes and going almost mad because you haven't found an answer, I have good news.

 

The solution to the problem starts with watching this video:

 

http://www.codechannels.com/video/quentinwatt/e-commerce/prestashop-beginner-tutorial-16-taxes-and-tax-rules/

 

If after watching the video you still have questions, maybe the following explanation can help:

 

1. I created a new tax in BO Localization->Taxes, for Florida called "US-FL My Webshop 6%" just to leave the original "Sales taxes US-FL 6%" alone´. This is optional, you can just as well us the original tax if you prefer.

2. I created new taxes for ALL the counties in Florida. For example: "US-FL Alachua 0.5%", "US-FL Baker 1%", etc. with the corresponding tax rates

3. I created a new tax rule group in BO Locatlization->Tax Rules->Add New Tax Rules Group, called "US-FL Tax and Surtax My Webshop" 

3. Once inside this New Tax Rule Group, I started adding all the tax rules I needed, starting with:

• United States, all states, zip code=0, combine, no tax
• United States, Florida, zip code =0, combine, tax=US-FL My Webshop 6% (in case you decided to use the original, then select "Sales taxes US-FL 6%"
• United States, Florida, zip code=32601 (for example, this is the first zip code in Alachua), combine, Tax= US-FL Alachua 0.5%. For a range: United States, Florida, zip code = 32603-32612, combine, Tax= US-FL Alachua 0.5%. 

The bad news is that you need to add each zip code or zip code range for each county manually. It's a nightmare but it works. 

 

Good luck!

 

Oh! yes, and in order to make the list of all zip codes for each county easier to handle, I used Excel for organizing them in ascending order.