Taxes on check out

I recently upgraded from free to Essential. Prior to the upgrade, on check out, I had shipping showing the amount including taxes with an explanation in brackets and a tax total showing and included as a line item in the total cost of the order. It now just shows the prices without taxes and the shipping cost is not taxed at all even though it is set up as taxable.

The invoice is correct (except for the shipping tax) but the order displayed is not.

I think the problem is related to the 'states' file. The states have been set up as zones within the countries but don't seem to be recognized. For example, when I went into the custom display field 'state' and tried to change the default value, it allowed the change but after saving, the 'state' field is now showing only options for country. States do not appear at all, even when 'states' zone is selected.

Also getting this error message on first checkout screen.

Notice: Undefined property: checkoutController::$beforeControllers in C:\wamp\www\HikaShop\components\com_hikashop\controllers\checkout.php on line 726

Notice: Undefined property: checkoutController::$beforeControllers in C:\wamp\www\HikaShop\components\com_hikashop\controllers\checkout.php on line 726

Can you help?

"You first need to set the default country and save. Then, you can set the default state and save. That can be done in the menu Display->Custom fields.
For the zones, you can customize them in the menu System->Zones."

This was all done but for some reason the zone could not be changed in the 'state' field. I ended up deleting all previously stored zone/tax/shipping information (it worked perfectly in the free version before upgrade) and re-entered. The custom field 'zone' problem has now resolved itself.

The checkout is still not displaying taxes as a separate line item and shipping is not being taxed as it should. I think something has changed.

Here you are:

At the moment< I'm developing locally so have not set up as a live site. I'll see what I can do.

Yes that worked. Thanks so much.