ProductCart Shopping Cart Software Forums : Sales Tax https://forum.productcart.com/ Copyright (c) 2006-2013 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 03:46:24 +0000 Sun, 15 Mar 2009 07:47:04 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 12.04 360 https://forum.productcart.com/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=2525 <![CDATA[ProductCart Shopping Cart Software Forums]]> https://forum.productcart.com/forum_images/pc_logo_50.png https://forum.productcart.com/ <![CDATA[Sales Tax : Currently ProductCart builds the...]]> https://forum.productcart.com/sales-tax_topic2525_post9264.html#9264 Author: ProductCart
Subject: 2525
Posted: 15-March-2009 at 7:47am

Currently ProductCart builds the Country and State/Province drop-downs based on routines that are shared across the entire application. So this would not be possible "out of the box". It would require some custom programming.

For the short term, you could leave the "State" drop-down as is, add some text to the page, set the system not to automatically approve affiliates and review each application.
]]> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 07:47:04 +0000 https://forum.productcart.com/sales-tax_topic2525_post9264.html#9264 <![CDATA[Sales Tax : This will effect every online...]]> https://forum.productcart.com/sales-tax_topic2525_post9253.html#9253 Author: katharina
Subject: 2525
Posted: 14-March-2009 at 3:40pm

This will effect every online store in the USA, so custom coding may not be the long term solution.  Having an affiliate will be treated like having a representative or presence in other states.  Meaning you have to collect taxes on other states.  The nightmare will be learning all the various tax rules and rates, which can change from city to city within a state.   There seems to be no central place to look this up, or does anyone know of a URL?   The reports will be important because sales tax has to be submitted to each state, and it will be dedious to add them all up manually.  We are in a sales tax free state, so I cannot just log in and play around.  At this point all we can do is prevent affiliate sign ups from certain states so we don't fall into this sales tax trap.  What I'm interested to know is how PC will handle this?  Can it be set up to prevent signups from certain states with a nice message explaning why.    Just like overstock.com does.
Katharina
]]> Sat, 14 Mar 2009 15:40:57 +0000 https://forum.productcart.com/sales-tax_topic2525_post9253.html#9253 <![CDATA[Sales Tax : Ditto !Hi Katharina, Off the top...]]> https://forum.productcart.com/sales-tax_topic2525_post9142.html#9142 Author: Hamish
Subject: 2525
Posted: 04-March-2009 at 9:26am

Ditto !

Hi Katharina,
   Off the top of my head I think a "tax file" is the way to go. Check the documentation on the WIKI regarding this. Not sure about the reports, but if it isn't already there I suspect it would probably be easy to create the custom code to support this, or even easier, export all the sales data and then use a spreadsheet to extract all the info.

]]> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 09:26:10 +0000 https://forum.productcart.com/sales-tax_topic2525_post9142.html#9142 <![CDATA[Sales Tax : Thank god I&#039;m in the Uk !!! Nigel...]]> https://forum.productcart.com/sales-tax_topic2525_post9139.html#9139 Author: intour
Subject: 2525
Posted: 04-March-2009 at 8:36am

Thank god I'm in the Uk !!!
 
Nigel
]]> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 08:36:21 +0000 https://forum.productcart.com/sales-tax_topic2525_post9139.html#9139 <![CDATA[Sales Tax : Ok here is a burning issue, that...]]> https://forum.productcart.com/sales-tax_topic2525_post9128.html#9128 Author: katharina
Subject: 2525
Posted: 03-March-2009 at 2:27pm

Ok here is a burning issue, that may effect all of us.  So far we only had to collect sales tax in the state we are present.  New York and other states now have inflicted sales tax on those selling goods to their states.  One way those state found a way into this is by looking at affiliates links from someone in their states.  They are basically saying that you now have a representative in their state and therefore must collect on all orders going to their state.  Amazon and Overstock were the first to hit hard by these laws.  They were being sued by NY and lost.  Overstock will no longer accept affiliates from New York, and Amazon agreed to start to collect sales tax.  Ebay is stilll fighting it.  Neither of them have a presense in New York.  New York seems to be the one pushing this issue the hardest, but other states like CA etc have implemented similar agendas.  I'm not even sure how to figure out all those sales tax districts etc.  A flat rate would be easy.  It will take days to sort it all out.  We also would need a way of running sales report showing the taxes etc.  I'm not listing links here, just google it and read the reputable sources that will come up.
Katharina
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