yes thats the only item, that it will wor, not sure why the
rest won't


Doug

Lester,
I added several items and used Illinois as well, it did show the estimated taxes. When I switched to NM it cleared it, as did New York. I'm not sure how the state of IL is, but in NM if an item is being shipped out of state, then sales tax is not necessary. I know that many other states are the same. I also don't know if IL is your home state, just assuming it was, since Scott got it to work.

yes it is the store home state , not sure if its calulating the subtotal x tax plus shipping or the subtotal+shipping x tax, the tax here is 6.5% an thats what
i have entered in the tax area ..

Doug

hey,
this just caught my attention, why is it estimated taxes not the real
tax amount

Doug

i'm so sorry to wast peoples time, it is doin the tax right
what its doin is taxing the subtotal then adding the shipping


Doug

Tax is charged by where it's purchased though not where it's being shipped correct?

Taxes are based on the shipping destination.

http://www.coffeecup.com/files/forums/tax-destination.png

In the program you mean right? I mean in reality, should it not be charged by where it's purchased from not where it's going to? Or do I have that backwards? I was reading some of the links that you guys have posted on the site for FAQ and such, very informative other than this doesn't specify in those pages about if it's purchased from one place and sent to another. Most of the info specifies if purchased and sent to the same place or purchased and sent from/to places outside your state, but nothing about if purchased inside your state and shipped outside your state.

I'll have to go look it up in the tax pages I have it somewhere lol. I "was" pretty sure that it should be charged by where it's purchased from though, not where it's shipped to, but like I said, I could be wrong on that so not so sure now lol

*wanders in circles now that she has herself confused again on taxes* LOL

P.S. one of the main reason I'm trying to make sure on this is because I plan to ship pretty much everything via U.S. Postal Service (my items are very small and light weight so it doesn't justify the expense of UPS or FedX ... yet...). So my shopping cart will not actually show the dropdown for the Shipping Choices, and instead shows just the "Shipping Destination" dropdown which kind of looks confusing this way. The amounts for the taxes show up correctly when choosing the correct shipping destination, but I'm still thinking that instead of it showing up as Shipping Destination it should show up as something else that has to do with the address or location of the purchaser? That's why I'm asking so I can make sure it's supposed to be shipping destination so it's not so confusing to customers.

Now if that made any sense to you... *then you're worse off than I am!* LOL

It is based on destination and not where the sale was originated from. Take Dell for example. If you order a computer from them and you live in Washington, there will be no tax. If you live in Texas, you will be charged tax.

The joys of the Web...

I'll have to go look that up, because (don't take this personally lol, definitely no offense meant at all) I think you're wrong on that. If you purchase something from an online business that is located in your own state you pay state tax. If you purchase something from somewhere outside of your own state (and that business doesn't have any locations in your own state at all) then you pay no tax. I'm pretty sure that's how it works. But... What I'm not sure of is if you purchase something from 'inside' your own state and you have it sent "out" of state, that's where it's confusing for me. I'll see if I can find the tax info and to also find out if every state is the same too.

We here have the pleasure of dealing with county and city taxes also, so following what I said above, if anyone that lives within my county purchases they pay county and state tax, and if they are within my city they pay county, state and city taxes. Basically meaning that it's where the customer is purchasing from not where they are having it shipped to... but as I said I'll go look this up so I make sure, and when I find the info I'll post the basic thing here so we all know for sure lol. I don't want to confuse anyone else anymore than I already have... including me