Don't show VAT / Sales Tax

[widgetuk]

Hi, I'm not a VAT registered company.

I want to sell online, and am about to launch my store using Boss Cart. I've read on the internet, that UK company's that are not VAT registered should not show any VAT/Sales tax calculations on invoices, receipts etc.

As such, I've set my products up to use VAT/sales tax of 0%.

However, this still shows on my shopping cart as "Tax Total 0%", which is confusing and misleading for the customer and shouldn't be there for non-VAT registered companies selling items. The rule appears to be, if you are not VAT registered, you dont display any reference to sales tax at all on any of your documents relating to sales/purchases.

The email that verifies the purchase, also says "Tax Total 0%", which again isn't ideal. It shouldn't mention that VAT at all.

The Purchase Order in the customers account history also says "Tax Total 0%".

You get the idea. It's basically quoted allover the place in Boss Cart. I considered just editing the code and removing the line completely from the Boss Cart scripts, but, because it's in so many places this would take a long time, and I'd end up having to customize lots of the Boss Code scripts. I dont like to do this, because it makes my cart installation very none-standard and as such any version updates etc might then be complicated and even undo my changes.

So, is there an simple way, one can let Boss Cart JV know that the company is not VAT registered and as such all references to "Tax Total"s on any of the emails, carts, invoices, purchase orders etc are REMOVED.

Many thanks, Jon

[Bagi Zoltán]

Hi Jon, unfortunatly there is no possibility or setting that may globally remove the tax displaying function, but i believe that only the /classes/ps_checkout.php and the /order_ emails/email_english.html files should be edit.

[widgetuk]

Originally Posted by Bagi Zoltán

Hi Jon, unfortunatly there is no possibility or setting that may globally remove the tax displaying function, but i believe that only the /classes/ps_checkout.php and the /order_ emails/email_english.html files should be edit.

Wow, thanks for the quick response!

I've had a word with the VAT office in the UK, and they say that ideally the lines which says "Tax Total 0%" should be removed for items that are not taxable (ie. the seller is not VAT registered). This is because it could look like you are selling taxable goods at zero-rate VAT, which isn't actually true, cos you're selling goods which are not taxable (ie. you cannot charge VAT on items when you're not VAT registered business).

I would imagine this would be a good thing to have in the global settings of any shopping cart therefore, to "turn off" sales taxes from being reported on items for companies not VAT registered, as I'm sure there's lots of companies in this situation in the UK.

Thanks for the advice about updating the scripts. I'll have a go. If it works, I'll update this post for the benefit of other users who have the same issue as I do. Cheers.

[Bagi Zoltán]

Jon, the solution is the following:
please open the administrator/components/com_virtuemart/html/basket.php file and in the 197th line replace

PHP Code:

$show_tax = true; 


with

PHP Code:

$show_tax = false; 


Cheers

[widgetuk]

Bagi, excellent. Sounds positive.

So, the progress I've made so far to remove the "Tax Totals: £0.00" from all customer facing parts of Boss Cart, is...



1) To remove the Tax Total from the Basket/cart pages, then edit /administrator/components/com_virtuemart/html/basket.php file and in the 197th line replace "$show_tax = true;" with "$show_tax = false".



2) To remove the Tax total from the emails that the customer receives then edit /administrator/components/com_virtuemart/html/templates/order_emails/email_english.html by replacing the "Total Tax" lines with "*&nbsc;" see below;

change this....
<tr class="Stil1">
<td colspan=4 align=right>Tax Total :</td>
<td>{phpShopOrderTax}</td>
</tr>

to this...
<tr class="Stil1">
<td colspan=4 align=right>&nbsp;</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
</tr>

GREAT! all works perfectly.


So, the "Tax Totals" now only appears in one final place... which is the last page before clicking the "Confirm Order" button at the bottom of the "Complete Order" part of the shopping cart. The above changes don't appear to stop this displaying so there must be somewhere else that's making it display there...?

In your previous PM, you suggested editing, /administrator/components/com_virtuemart/classes/ps-checkout.php with the following lines commented out...

the 1731st line which looks like this...


if ($auth["show_price_including_tax"] != 1) {
$shopper_message .= $VM_LANG->_PHPSHOP_ORDER_PRINT_TOTAL_TAX." = ";
$shopper_message .= $CURRENCY_DISPLAY->getFullValue($order_tax) . "\n";
}

please replace with this....

if ($auth["show_price_including_tax"] != 1) {
/* $shopper_message .= $VM_LANG->_PHPSHOP_ORDER_PRINT_TOTAL_TAX." = ";
$shopper_message .= $CURRENCY_DISPLAY->getFullValue($order_tax) . "\n";
*/ }


After you are done with it please go a bit down to the 1764th line and replace this....

$shopper_message .= $VM_LANG->_PHPSHOP_ORDER_PRINT_TOTAL_TAX." = ";
$shopper_message .= $CURRENCY_DISPLAY->getFullValue($order_tax) . "\n";

with this...

/*$shopper_message .= $VM_LANG->_PHPSHOP_ORDER_PRINT_TOTAL_TAX." = ";
$shopper_message .= $CURRENCY_DISPLAY->getFullValue($order_tax) . "\n";*/



Unfortunately this appears to have NO EFFECT on the shopping cart. The Tax Total still appears on the final Complete Order page. So, there must be somewhere esle?!?! And if there is, then, perhaps we need not have made the above two change at all to ps-checkout.php????


thanks, again!

JON

[Bagi Zoltán]

Please open the html/templates/basket/ro_basket_b2c.html.php file and delete this code

PHP Code:

<?php if ( $tax ) { ?>
  <tr class="sectiontableentry2">
    <td colspan="4" align="right" valign="top"><?php echo $VM_LANG->_PHPSHOP_ORDER_PRINT_TOTAL_TAX ?>: </td> 
    <td><?php echo $tax_display ?></td>
  </tr>
<?php } 
?>

92nd-98th lines.
Thank you

[widgetuk]

SUCCESS.

So, there are quite a few elements to change for anyone who has a company which isn't registered for VAT.

Hopefully this post has helped those people.

Here's the FINAL version of what to do...

1) To remove the Tax Total from the Basket/cart pages, then edit /administrator/components/com_virtuemart/html/basket.php file and in the 197th line replace "$show_tax = true;" with "$show_tax = false".



2) To remove the Tax total from the emails that the customer receives then edit /administrator/components/com_virtuemart/html/templates/order_emails/email_english.html by replacing the "Total Tax" lines with "*&nbsc;" see below;

change this....
<tr class="Stil1">
<td colspan=4 align=right>Tax Total :</td>
<td>{phpShopOrderTax}</td>
</tr>

to this...
<tr class="Stil1">
<td colspan=4 align=right>&nbsp;</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
</tr>


3) Now, finally, go to /administrator/components/com_virtuemart/html/templates/basket/ro_basket_b2c.html.php file and delete this code from line 92 to 98.


<?php if ( $tax ) { ?>
<tr class="sectiontableentry2">
<td colspan="4" align="right" valign="top"><?php echo $VM_LANG->_PHPSHOP_ORDER_PRINT_TOTAL_TAX ?>: </td>
<td><?php echo $tax_display ?></td>
</tr>
<?php }
?>





THANKS FOR BAGI FOR HIS GENIUS THERE... I've only put his genius together to form a single set of instructions for anyone who needs to follow it.