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Browse All TopicsMy client have a Joomla based Website with a VirtueMart catalog. I have to setup his shopping cart, but I can't find out to configure the taxes for a Canadian customer/business. Here in Canada (Québec), we have a federal tax and a provincial tax, and we calculate the provincial tax over the federal tax.
Here is an concrete example :
Subtotal : 2000,00 $
GST (6%) : 120,00$ (so 2000,00$ + 120,00$ = 2120,00$, the 7,5% QST will be calculate over)
QST (7,5%) : 159,00$
Total : 2279,00$
I know that if I use 13,95% as a percentage value, I can get the same result, but the Canadian law requires to mention both taxes and the related amounts on each invoices.
I really can't see how to set that into VirtueMart, and I tried other similar shopping carts solutions, like Zen Cart and Cube Cart, but seems that no one has been thinking about the Canadian taxes and laws. Anyway my client doesn't have to change his website plate-forme. So I was wondering if somebody could give me a workaround for that, maybe some simple php lines to add into my code, a patch or a tricky way to get the taxes correctly showing on invoices.
Thanks !
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Look at the post bye Scott (August 08, 2006, 05:36:03 am) on:
http://forum.virtuemart.ne
The file to edit is:
/administrator/components/
aroune line 298
If it is only necessary to show that portions of the tax are different, you could easily change the language file
/admin/components/com_virt
line 239 is 'Tax Total
to something like 'Tax Total (GST 6%, QST 7.5%)' and use the 13.5% tax rate as you mentioned earlier
the problem that you would run into if you patch the code for your specific purpose is that you will likely have alot of trouble upgrading your shopping cart when a new version of virtuemart is released (which happens quite frequently)
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by: nizsmoPosted on 2007-11-10 at 16:55:21ID: 20257728
This is quite a specific question, and since VirtueMart and Zencart CubeCart all don't support this, I guess your only option left (a simpler solution) is to write your external script which (mentions) the taxes separately (maybe as a popup?) and for internal tax calculation just use 13.95 to calculate the tax.
Hope this is a feasable solution.