EU tax rules

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11 years 5 months ago #106421

I've been working on a webshop for quite a while now. First they wanted a quote only shop, but they've changed their minds... :angry:
Now it has to be a shop with the EU-tax rule: Companies within the EU, but outside the Netherlands, don't get tax charged. The netherlands and companies outside the EU do get tax charged.
I searched this forum, but it seems quite hard the get it working with the VAT number check. Can you get me started on this?
What zones have to be active, what VAT rules have to be made and with wich taxes and/or categories?

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11 years 5 months ago #106442

There is nothing hard as long as you follow our documentation on taxes.
First there is no need to modify any zone in HikaShop.
Here is an example of the tax rules that we have on our website:


Simply remove the Guadeloupe tax rule and change the France zone to Netherlands and that will be all you need to configure for your tax rules.
You can use the default tax category as it is already selected by default in your products. There is no need to create a "software" tax category on your end.
And finally, in the "main tax zone" of your configuration, you can select the Netherlands instead of the default one.

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11 years 5 months ago #106470

You make it look so easy ;)

Main tax zone is set to The Netherlands and i 'copied' the entries of your screenshot. I only added a 0% rule (as your islas canarias rule).

I can't test it properly now, because the VIES server is busy... :S
That brings me to another point. The error that returns is a huge amount of text, maybe there can be a nicer error displayed, or when online check is not possible, a format check will be assumed.

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11 years 5 months ago #106493

You don't need to 0% rule. If there is no rule, the taxes will be 0 anyway.

If you want a soft fallback, you can change the lines:
$result = false;

to:
return true;

in the file administrator/components/com_hikashop/helpers/vat.php and the system will skip the online VAT check and only do a regex check when the online server is unavailable.

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11 years 5 months ago #106712

Wow. It works like a charm.
My problem was that i (for some reason) deleted the default tax categorie, so all products where not in a categorie. I made a new one and added all the products to it. Bingo!
Thanks!

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