Taxes By Location

General General Questions
1

Taxes are defined by location. If I only have as a single location (Country) USA but 50 states listed under that location, how I can set up different taxes(%) for individual states? i.e. California, New York, Florida.

2

Dear Goodies,



It is not a new theme. Many CS-Cart users faced with this problem.



Please check these threads:

  1. Setting Taxes for All States in USA - Multi-Vendor Edition - CS-Cart Community Forums
  2. State Sales Tax Nightmare - Multi-Vendor Edition - CS-Cart Community Forums
  3. Tax Rates By State, Every Cart Has It... - Configuration - CS-Cart Community Forums



    Also you may read the Knowledge Base

    CS-Cart Documentation — CS-Cart 4.15.x documentation



    Hope it will help.



    Best regards, Alt-team.
3

Dear Goodies,



There is a way to implement it:

  1. go to Admin panel top menu > Shipping & Taxes > Locations
  2. click to a “+” button to add location. This way you can separately create as many new locations as you need
  3. go to Admin panel top menu > Shipping & Taxes > Taxes
  4. choose a tax
  5. follow to Tax rates tab. There you will see a list of locations and rate values
  6. specify the rates for certain states separately.



    Sincere regards,

    Cart Power
4

Given that tax rates always change and there are 48 states that have sales tax in USA (Montana and Oregon are the exceptions), you might want to use a 3rd party tax rate service that can do a better job of getting it right. Note too that many counties and cities also have varying tax rates. I.e. LA city, LA county and California is a different tax than someone from San Diego California.



You would then integrate the 'tax rate service' to get the appropriate tax for the city/state/zip being used as the shipping address and substitute that rate. It would be an investment up-front, but save you hours and hours of maintenance down the road in trying to manually keep 50 locations current with the current tax rates.



But as far as I know, Washington is the only state that expects a merchant in another state to collect WA state tax and then send them a quarterly check. However, so far, this has been unenforceable. However, they are working with UPS/USPS/FedEx to get reporting of deliveries for future audit capabilities. But I doubt small merchants are their target.



And, alternatively you could build a script that would create the 50 locations and update the tax info based on a spreadsheet of information and then just run it with new data once a quarter or whatever frequency makes sense.

5

Avalara works great for what you want and Cart Power has the connector to connect CS-Cart to Avalara. I have a couple of clients that use it.



I hope that helps.

6

Thanks for the reply.



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