Tax exempt

Hi,
The general rule in my country is that everybody pay taxes ;However, there are certain people who are tax exempt. and they have to prove that with certain documents.
I will ask for the documents upon registration and if they are exempt then I will add them to a special user group i created.

my question is how to make the tax exempt user group as tax exempt?

i created a new tax category with 0 tax but how to add a new customer type to apply this tax category ?

I can see on demo site there is an "Access level" parameter for Only HikaShop Business , I guess I can use this to assign a zero tax category to the tax exempt user group to make them exempt.
will this work?

I tried what you suggested however my tax rules do not work any more !! please help.

my site is merc2.cloudaccess.net/administrator/

user/pwd *************

Thank you for your help,

Now anybody with YES in the VAT field in the address will be exempt . Right ?? please confirm.

I did not understand your comment below as I could not find any other place to make suggested changes.

nicolas wrote: You changed the "Default address type" in the configuration where you shouldn't have changed it.{/quote]

How can i fix that?

Hello Nicolas,
I still cannot see taxes.
if i log in as a registered user taxes disappear while if not logged in taxes are correct!!!
should i change anything in tax rules ?

recreated the zones and recreated the tax rules and now It worked fine Thank you for your help

Hi.

How can I make a tax exempt rule based on the shop ammount? In some cases like in the Massachusetts state you are exempt of paying VAT for shoppings amounts of 175 or less. How can I configure that kind of taxation rule?

nicolas wrote: Here is what you can do:
Edit the address_vat field via the Display>Custom fields area and change it to a yes/no dropdown with no having an empty value. Publish it but turn off the front end display. Then, deactivate the VAT number check in the configuration.
Then, in your tax rules, select that the tax rules do not apply to companies with a vat number (you might need to create several tax rules, one for each other customer type, ie. individuals and companies without a vat number).

When you create a user in the back end of hikashop and enter his address, you will have that vat number option displayed and if you turn it on, the tax rules won't apply to him.

Hi,

I am in charge of setting-up and running two individual websites, both of which I am running the Business version of HikaShop. On one of the websites, I have the same situation as the original poster of this thread. I have some questions.

1. a)Should I follow the suggestion listed in the quoted text?

b) Or should I follow the suggestion given in the last post of this thread...
www.hikashop.com/en/forum/4-how-to/6642-...rand-total.html#6642

c) Or do you suggest anything else? Also note I am running Business.

2. In the Custom Fields, I went ahead and changed the label for address_vat to "Sales Tax Exempt"

3. If I do continue to follow the quoted text from this thread, can you please explain a little more how to make a "yes/no dropdown with no having an empty value"? And what value should yes have in it? So far, I have changed the Field Type to Single Dropdown, made Values of...

Value Title
No
Yes Yes

...and made the Default Value = No. Do I need to do more? I am not completely clear on what this is supposed to accomplish.

4. Again, if I follow the quoted text, will the following single tax rule be enough for me....
Pennsylvania | PA Tax Category | Pennsylvania (6%) | Individual

Thank you very much for your support.

I think I have this working correctly. Thank you for you help!!!

Hi,
I know this is an old thread, but I'm new to Hikashop and have tried this on my site.

On first test (flagging the customer as No, and therefore no value in the vat_address) it created the order properly, emailed everything to me.

Second test, Deleted the customer from the Customer menu, after removing their order:(flagging the customer as Yes, and therefore value=Yes in the vat_address) it calculated the tax properly but I could no longer complete the checkout.

Closed the browser and cleared cache and tried again, this time I decided to publish vat_address to the frontend and renamed it "Status as First Nation" (in Canada they are tax exempt) then going through the registration process I tried to enter the customer again and it tells me I need to enter a value for the vat_address and if I choose anything other than Yes, it keeps repeating to enter a value in vat_address (this is on both the front end and back end)

Edit:
I found part of the issue was related to the vat_address being set as required, once I removed that it would update and allow me to register.
Found another issue though, once the vat_address receives a value (by selecting the Yes from the drop down, where the value=yes) this cannot be undone for that address. To remove the entry the address must be deleted and re-entered as No (from the drop down, where the value= ).
Is there another way to remove the value from vat_address?

Hi,
I did try that, and tried Radio Button, still no luck. I realize the first issue was because setting it as required, meant the field needs a value, and of course choosing No had no associated value.

But changing that type made no difference during testing.

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