the conundrum of tax included where there is no tax to be included

[taoreflex]

I sell books which have no tax (zero rated for VAT) and I sell products which are taxable. When I sell a taxable item I select the relevant tax rate. When I sell a non-taxable item I select no tax. I want to sell a book for £4.99, so I enter the price as 4.99 and select "no tax" but Prestashop displays the price as £4.99 tax incl.

From reading the forum I can only find a solution of turning the "tax incl." text into "ea." That obviously kind of works, but not really much of a solution as it then displays "ea" when there is tax so you do actually want it to say "tax incl.". Does anyone know of a way for it not to display that tax is included when there is no tax, but still have it display tax incl. when there is tax?

If there are no answers to that question, does anybody have any ideas on how to convince customers that even though there is no tax, it is the very absence of tax which is being included when it says tax included (apart from when there actually is tax). I immediately thought to add a footnote explaining that in a parallel universe, which they may or may not have visited, absence of tax is actually just as substantive as tax, and because Prestashop software exists outside the normal rules of the space time continuum, its necessary to put tax incl. where there is no tax in order to cover for those instances where the online store strays from one universe into another. Although, this is clearly true and 100% accurate, I'm sure that less scientifically gifted customers may find it difficult to get their heads around it unless they are wearing a hat full of icecubes. And even then, something of this complexity is likely to rapidly turn the ice cubes into fog.

[tomerg3]

You can change the places where "tax inc" is displayed to check if the price with tax, and price without are the same, if they are, do not display the "tax inc" text.

I did not post any examples since you did not specify which Prestashop version you are using.

[taoreflex]

Thanks tomerg3,

I'm using 1.3.1.

Note to programmers: suggest that you either include tomerg3's code in next release or, if you prefer, you can use my explanation from my previous post instead (bit difficult to fit it in around "tax incl.," so you'd probably need to put it in a popup).

[John Paul]

taoreflex hello, I have the same problem about the products I have with a vat 16% and everything works fine when priced with tax included followed by the words "tax inclusive", the problem is that I have other products on VAT, the price I get well without the tax, but followed by the words "VAT Included, "I do so that products that do have taxes appear VAT Inclusive and that they have no taxes at all or does not appear to appear "Excluding VAT"

Thanks for your help


spanish

hola taoreflex, tengo tu mismo problema, unos productos los tengo con un iva del 16% y todo funciona bien el precio aparece con el impuesto incluido seguido del texto "IVA Incluido", el problema es que tengo otros productos sin iva, el precio me aparece bien sin el impuesto, pero seguido del texto "IVA Incluido", que hago para que los productos que si tienen iva aparezca "IVA Incluido" y para que los que no tengan iva no aparezca nada o que aparezca "excluido de iva"

Gracias por su ayuda

[taoreflex]

Hopefully tomerg3 might be persuaded to post the how-to-do-it that he mentioned.

Apart from that I've discovered that its normal in France. If you want to buy a petrol car, you ask for a car without diesel, or if you want a beeef sandwich you ask for a sandwich without chicken, pork, veal, lamb, turkey, duck, etc.