how to get rid of estimated sales tax

[sean1688]

Hello,

 

on our site http://www.mastechpowersupply.com, whenever a customer add an item to basket, the CA sales tax will be added to the total. this sales tax goes away when a customer put in an address that's not in California. my question is, is it possible to not add the sales tax when an item is added to basket, and only include the sales tax when the address customer put in is inside California?

 

Best regards,

 

Sean

[bsmither]

There is a conversation on these forums, maybe about 6-9 months ago, that discussed a way to suppress the display of taxes and shipping estimates until CubeCart has a confirmed delivery address.

 

Maybe a search will find it. I can look for it later.

[bsmither]

I found the discussion. Please start reading from here:

http://www.cubecartforums.org/index.php?showtopic=18064&view=findpost&p=74214

and make sure to read through to the end.

 

You can read the entire thread, to get the gist of what was being developed.

 

That was 18 months ago, so in the later versions of CC5, the line numbers may have changed.

[sean1688]

Thanks Brian. I did the change, it removed the shipping, but the sales tax part is still there.

 

what we would like to do is to show the estimated shipping but not the sales tax.

[bsmither]

Ok, the code got a bit more complicated since that article 18 months ago.

 

In the file /classes/cart.class.php, near line 624 (in CC5213), a test is made that if the $tax_country is 'empty', which it will be if there is no user-supplied address, then use the store's country. Try making this edit:

Was:
$tax_country = $GLOBALS['config']->get('config', 'store_country');
 
Now:
$tax_country = 0; // $GLOBALS['config']->get('config', 'store_country');

I haven't tried this.

[sean1688]

Brian,

 

Thanks again for your help. unfortunately. it did not seem to do anything.