taxing goods

i'm a bit bewildered by the tax area in oscommerce...
i would like it to do the following for ALL current products;

TAX UK AT 0 VAT %
TAX all EU countries at their respective rates - these vary from 16 % to 25 %and are different for each country.

This applies for EVERY product.

I would also like to have the posibility of taxing exactly the same as above, but include 17.5% for UK taxes also.


so I want 2 tax zones - UK 0% + different european countries
- UK 17.5% + different european countries.

any ideas?

[mikeyboy]

I understand the backend Zones, Classes and Rates and have set everything up including the data that I have uploaded via EasyPopulate.

But for some reason even though I have assigned the "tax rates" to the my "tax classes", it is not working on the shop.

On the Configuration section I have disabled "Display prices with Tax" as I do not want to display the tax until they check out where osC references the customers address to calculate the tax.

Any ideas anyone on this problem.??!?!?!

Cheers.