Tax

[jka]

I may have nibbled on this topic before. Any chance to suppress the TAX until the user signs in or enters a valid billing or shipping address? Right now it pulls the default State of the business and displays it. This is confusing for some domestic and overseas customers.

From content.checkout.medium-up.php

        {foreach from=$TAXES item=tax}
         <tr>
            <td colspan="4"></td>
            <td>{$tax.name}{$CUSTOMER_LOCALE.mark}</td>
            <td class="text-right">{$tax.value}</td>
         </tr>
         {/foreach}
        

[jka]

Ok. Managed to fix this in the content.checkout.medium-up.php

Now the default tax doesnt show up when a customer is poking around. Also the Shipping rates display the default State and Country for the initial quote and Estimates.

The modifications and additions highlights in "RED"

 {if isset($SHIPPING)}
         <tr>
            <td colspan="4">
               {$LANG.basket.shipping_select}: {$ESTIMATES.state}  {$ESTIMATES.country}
               <select name="shipping">
                  <option value="">{$LANG.form.please_select}</option>
                  {foreach from=$SHIPPING key=group item=methods}
                  {if $HIDE_OPTION_GROUPS ne '1'}
                  <optgroup label="{$group}">{/if}
                     {foreach from=$methods item=method}
                     <option value="{$method.value}" {$method.selected}>{$method.display}</option>
                     {/foreach}
                     {if $HIDE_OPTION_GROUPS ne '1'}
                  </optgroup>
                  {/if}
                  {/foreach}
               </select>
            </td>
            <td>{$LANG.basket.shipping}
               {if $ESTIMATE_SHIPPING}
               (<a href="#" onclick="$('#getEstimate').slideToggle();">{$LANG.common.estimated}</a>)
               <div id="getEstimate" class="hide panel callout">
                  <h4><svg class="icon right" id="getEstimateClose" onclick="$('#getEstimate').slideUp();"><use xlink:href="#icon-times"></use></svg>{$LANG.basket.specify_shipping}</h4>
                  <label for="estimate_country">{$LANG.address.country}</label>
                  <select name="estimate[country]" id="estimate_country"  class="nosubmit country-list" rel="estimate_state">
                     {foreach from=$COUNTRIES item=country}<option value="{$country.numcode}" {$country.selected}>{$country.name}</option>{/foreach}
                  </select>
                  <label for="estimate_state">{$LANG.address.state}</label>
                  <input type="text" name="estimate[state]" id="estimate_state" value="{$ESTIMATES.state}" placeholder="{$LANG.address.state}">
                  <label for="estimate_postcode">{$LANG.address.postcode}</label>
                  <input type="text" value="{$ESTIMATES.postcode}" id="estimate_postcode" placeholder="{$LANG.address.postcode}" name="estimate[postcode]">
                  <input type="submit" name="get-estimate" class="button expand" value="{$LANG.basket.fetch_shipping_rates}">
                  <script type="text/javascript">
                  var county_list = {$STATE_JSON};
                  </script>
               </div>
               {/if}
            </td>
            <td class="text-right">{$SHIPPING_VALUE}</td>
         </tr>
         {/if}
          
    {if $IS_USER}      
         {foreach from=$TAXES item=tax}
         <tr>
            <td colspan="4"></td>
            <td>{$tax.name}{$CUSTOMER_LOCALE.mark}</td>
            <td class="text-right">{$tax.value}</td>
         </tr>
         {/foreach}
    {/if}    

[jka]

Ok. While it works perfectly for someone poking around or if the user is a registered user, the tax doesnt display for the store State if the user is not a registered user during checkout. Need to find something other than $IS_USER