Tax/VAT Configuration

I am in the final stages of designing a site and on the site there are some product packages. These contain some products such as books which a not subject to VAT/Tax while other products are.

Would appreciate a suggestion on how this can be implemented so tax is only charged on the relevant products rather than the whole package price.

So pack costs £50 but only £10 is subject to VAT. Currently VAT is charged on the whole amount where in fact it only needs to be charged on the £10

Thanks

Dave

Hi Dave,
I think that you'll just have to set the "Product tax category" option of the products that you don't want to be taxed to None.

Hi Mohamed

thanks for the reply. The packs are pre-assembled with certain items, so for instance the Multi Faith collection is priced at £50. The pack contains books, and other items. The books are zero rated while the other items would be subject to VAT. The VAT is currently calculated on the whole £50. Essentially there needs to be a breakdown with all items listed and priced, almost like a product option but without adding to the overall price..

Dave

Thanks for the reply Nicolas. I did wonder if it was possible to create some kind variant using a custom field with a price that would be used as part of a calculation. So the product would show a list of the items included which are then calculated as part of the pricing structure.

So the pack would be £50 then the other items that make up the pack would be listed almost like product options I suppose that are fixed.

Dave

Apologies for the delay in replying, been working on other areas of the site.

I don't fully understand what is required I'm afraid

What type of custom field would I need to create please?

Reference was made about using percentages and tax rates but would that then mean there is more than one tax rate visible at checkout?

Would really appreciate a bit of additional input

Thanks

Dave

Nicolas

thanks for the reply. There is only one tax rate of 20% and the other is 0% which usually applies to magazines, books etc. The client is going to sort out the products which can then be added to the drop down as you suggest. The drop down itslfl doesn't really need to be visable as such to the end user.

I will look at this and raise any further questions should the need arise.

Thanks

Dave

This post is now quite old so I could start a new one if that is the better option.

I am struggling to understand how to implement the solution suggested.

I would really appreciate some examples of how the values are entered in the dropdown?

To clarify the situation it is as follows:

The product packs are made up of taxable and non taxable products. In most cases the taxable product is a storage box and that is all.

On one though there are 3 additional items.

Product options would allow them to be added but this needs to be by default and non changeable by the customer or as fixed characteristics maybe? Basically they items need to show on the invoice and be part of the tax calculations. I suppose another way to look at it is as this pack includes with the items priced.

I did look at the check box option too and wondered if this could be set as a custom field and as selected by default but not to appear on the front end, just as part of the calculation that would show on the invoice etc

Thanks

Dave

Nicolas

thanks for the reply.

I managed to get this working. On a particular product. The product price is £26.55 for instance but with the addtion of the option it is now £41. Is there a way for the product price to display as £41 rather than £26.55?

Thanks

Dave

My last post is probably not a workable!!

I have also run into another issue that the end user can remove the product option from the cart. I can turn off the delete button at checkout although they can still type 0.

So it looks like I am still stuck at the moment.

Also I have just tried to access the documentation and I am getting page not found errors

www.hikashop.com/support/documentation/3...axation-listing.html

Dave

Hi Nicolas

yes I had turned group options off

Thanks very much for your input.

Dave