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Anyone come across the strange taxing in Connecticut and Massachusetts ?
We have brick and mortar retail stores in these states and have to apply the tax as such:

CONNECTICUT
“Clothing” tax schedule (code 3): 0% for items under $50.00, and 6% (on the full price) on items $50.00 and over.
“Taxable” (code 1): 6% on full price

MASSACHUSETTS
“Clothing” tax schedule (code 3): 0% for items $175.00 and under, and 6.25% on the amount over $175.00 for items $175.01 and over.
“Taxable” (code 1): 6.25% on full price.

Need some idea's on this one..

Thanks !

We have a B/M store in NY, and until recent law changes had a similar situation. What was worse, In NYS you have to charge tax to the COUNTY you are SHIPPING to. Since no commerce package collects county information on checkout, and zip codes do not always stay consistently in one county, we concluded there was no way to do this correctly.

So for NYS orders we just charge the sales tax from OUR county, and keep track of what NYS orders there are, and correct the tax when we file quarterly. Fortunately, that only comes to a dozen or so orders (so far).

Anyone else come across this issue yet ? or have any ideas how to go about solving this crazy tax structure issue ?

Hello,

I've been looking around for a cart that could handle Massachusetts Sales tax with out addition efforts.
Did either of you find a solution in OpenCart?

The part that is missing is the ability to perform the calculation solely upon the amount above $175. While OpenCart cannot currently do this, there may be a way to accomplish the feat with much less programming (which is still more than my PHP skill level).

What we need to do is to modify Tax Class calculation to allow for the entry of a fixed tax amount as an element of the Tax Class, in addition to the current ability that allows for a percentage tax. If we can get someone to make this modification, we can then construct a "Massachusetts Clothing Tax" comprising two elements:

6.25% on the purchase price
- $10.9375 tax forgiven on the first $175 of the purchase price.

Items valued over $175 would be assigned this Tax Class.

It's not much help, but maybe it's a place to start.