Remove Sales Tax on Downloadable items?

[emdub]

We offer an electronic download option for our products which should not be taxed: Is there a way to change sales tax based on shipping method?

[Rick Wilson]

Re: Remove Sales Tax on Downloadable items?

You can just mark the product as non taxable.

[emdub]

Re: Remove Sales Tax on Downloadable items?

We do have a few items that are download only, and those are marked non-taxable.

The rest of our products are availbale on a DVD (which we ship) or as a download. We can't mark those as non-taxable because we do need to charge sales tax if the customer wants their order shipped to them.

[Rick Wilson]

Re: Remove Sales Tax on Downloadable items?

Got it, I think eMedia's module may have a way to do that. Or using variants may allow for that. Let me do some checking.

[wcw]

Re: Remove Sales Tax on Downloadable items?

The Basket_SubTotal_Taxable which the tax modules use does not use the variants. It queries the sum based on the basket items' prices and their associated options' prices and whether the product is taxable. There is no taxable flag at the option level.

[Bruce - PhosphorMedia]

Re: Remove Sales Tax on Downloadable items?

Could toolkit be used to intercept the add to basket, and if option = download, set taxable to "false"? (its what we use in custom coding).

[wcw]

Re: Remove Sales Tax on Downloadable items?

I just re-read your post. If you could change the value in the basket items database, that would work. Tool Kit does not have that capability at this time.

[wcw]

Re: Remove Sales Tax on Downloadable items?

I just added a new function to the Tool Kit. I am currently testing it. You can test for a condition, e.g. option code is download. If the condition is met, you can remove the tax from the item. Here's the example code which goes in the basket contents tab of the OCST page template.

<mvt:if expr="l.settings:option:opt_code EQ 'download'">
<mvt:item name="toolkit" param="taxadjustitem|l.all_settings:item:line_id|0 " />
</mvt:if>

[emdub]

Re: Remove Sales Tax on Downloadable items?

Any progress on this?

[wcw]

Re: Remove Sales Tax on Downloadable items?

The taxadjustitem function was added to the Tool Kit. It works fine.

[emdub]

Re: Remove Sales Tax on Downloadable items?

Great! Thank you so much! Ordering the update now!

[emdub]

Re: Remove Sales Tax on Downloadable items?

I got the update yesterday and I'm trying to implement it now, but I have a few questions.

This is the example code, and you say it should go on the OCST page.

<mvt:if expr="l.settings:option:opt_code EQ 'download'">
<mvt:item name="toolkit" param="taxadjustitem|l.all_settings:item:line_id|0 " />
</mvt:if>


Is the 'download' option an attribute that I would put on each product, and the customer would have to select when adding an item to the cart? Is there a way to have the taxadjustitem be on the page where the customer selects the shipping method (OSEL?).