California Sales Tax - Ugh

**draeseke** · 08-16-2003, 10:15 AM

Some of you out there may be familiar with the wacky way sales tax works in CA. Localities are allowed to add a small tax over and above the state sales tax. If a business is HQ'd in a particlular locality, they would need to charge whatever the going local rate is (7.25% state + x%) when selling in their locality.

Internet sales are a little different. If the business ships to a different locality within CA, they need not charge the extra bit of local taxes, provided they don't deliver it themselves. A sale made over the internet to a customer within your locality does need to be charged the local rate.

If the seller does deliver the product himself, he's considered to be doing business in that locality, and needs to charge the local rate.

These localities go by county (with one exception I've found so far).

Somehow I have to make OSCommerce aware of which county the goods are going to, and if they are delivered or not (I will be doing some onsite deliveries).

Does anyone have suggestions?

**jgkiefer** · 08-16-2003, 04:14 PM

Yes, there is an answer. Being in California myself I have had to address this issue. There is a thread on the OSC forums that will explain how to do this. It is really quite easy.

The thread is here:
(I believe you will find the cleanest code near the end of the post pages 4 or so I believe.)

http://forums.oscommerce.com/viewtopic.php?t=43228

It is self explanatory, but let me know if you need help.