Tax Rules

I hope I am explaining this correctly? I am working on an online store (e-commerce site) that will sell product to any customer within all 50 states. What is the best way to set up the tax categories and rates so the customer when ordering the product will get the correct tax applied to the order during checkout. Meaning if Oregon is 0% then no tax and if Arkansas is 9.48% the tax is added accordingly...does this make sense. Is this possible? Or...is there code that needs to be generated in the backend to hand this process. Any help would be appreciated because I am stuck.

Thanks!

Nicolas,

Thanks for the instruction. Tax rate is working and I followed your steps but if someone orders from Florida...Florida state tax rate should be applied instead of the default and this is not working. I hope I am making sense? So...basically, everyone that orders pays Arkansas state tax, which is incorrect.

My zone of Tax is Arkansas, 9.48% tax rate, default tax category is set and everything is published. My products are set to default tax category too. "Main tax zone" in the configuration page is set to United States. What else needs to be done here? I need the rate of tax to change per state being shipped to.

Thanks!

Paul

I also, just now am at the point where I am setting up a LIVE cart and needs this..

Thanks !!