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There are no options in CCP that support that type of grouping.

Discount codes are not related to taxes. You can't predict what a customer might buy to establish a discount code for an amount of tax. You could open a second level support request for a quote to do something like this I suppose.

I was having this same problem... I have no idea how to code PHP but and I fiddled my way through all sorts of files and garbage for the last 2 days. I found a fix.
Go to your ecom_checkout.php file its located core-private / ECOM / ECOM_checkout / ECOM_checkout.php

find the statement that has this heading   // +--
                                                                           // | Get tax exemption information.
                                                                           // +--

Make the entire statement  look like this:
// +--
// | Get tax exemption information.
// +--


$taxexemptnum        = ' ' ;
$taxexemptnum_valid  = 1;

if ($this->globals('core_user.usergroup') != 'wholesale') {
$taxexemptnum = 1;

}

     
elseif (!(empty($this->cosess['custom_fields']['taxexemptnum'])))  {


     $this->cosess['custom_fields']['taxexemptnum'];

} // End of if statement.



Sorry I really dont know PHP except from what i learned over the past 2 days so i am sure this could be cleaned up a lot. however it did fix my site so that normal customers  get taxed and wholesale customers do not.  This is for CC7.

Last edited by karrasda103 (07-12-2010 20:06:06)

thanks for the reply dh783..

however, I have tested this

End goal was Wholesale Group = no taxes
                          Everyone else outside of cali = no taxes
                          Everyone else inside of cali = taxes

The system dashboard only allows me to change taxes based on location not on user group.

whatever I did in the code seemed to work correctly. like I said im no expert but the end result is what I was looking for.


Again I am not an expert by any stretch of the imagination on php, I do not know exactly why this works. Just that it does work to accomplish my end goal perfectly and that is really all that matters to me.


perhaps you could do some testing with that code and see if it works on a different site to the same end goal. that would be the ultimate test as to its functionality.


if you would like to look at my site it is http://www.aresarmor.com/install/

again thank you for your reply

Last edited by karrasda103 (07-20-2010 12:48:02)

DH783
Please read the entire post to understand what it is I am trying to accomplish.

If I had to guess I would say the you do not sell to dealer's or other business for the purpose of resell. I keep records of my dealers' tax exempt info on hand and it is redundant  for them to have to enter in a tax exempt number every time they try to buy something. My set up is very different from yours.

yes i understand how  it calculates tax based on region. the point of what I did was to make it not calculate tax for any wholesale account regardless of region.

CCP does not have built in functionality to make particular user groups nontaxable if they did I would not have edited any code.

Like i said the code HAS BEEN TESTED and works perfectly to the end it was intended to on my site.

if your from california and you are not wholesale you get charged tax. if you are from anywhere else and are not wholesale no tax. if you are from anywhere including california and are  wholesale you do not get charged tax.

wholesale = no tax regardless of region
regular acct from cali = tax
regular acct outside of cali = no tax

The regular ccp code for this does not allow wholesale accounts to be untaxable and is therefore not functional for users who do B2B dealer transactions unless modified.

again I am not an expert on PHP but the new CODE DOES WORK EXACTLY the way I wanted it to. End results are what matters to me.

Changing the code back to the original is not an option because the original code forces dealer accounts from cali have to enter in tax exempt info every time they purchase. That is an extra unneeded step because I have their tax exempt numbers on file. little things like that make the differences between loosing a B2B customer or not. Obviously losing one of these customers is a much bigger loss than losing an end consumer.

thank you for your reply, I appreciate the feedback and concern.
If you have a cleaner way of accomplishing the same tax modification (WHOLE SALE NEVER GETTING CHARGED TAX NO MATTER WHERE THEY ARE FROM)  I would be interested in hearing about it for sure. REVERTING TO ORIGINAL CODE IS NOT AN OPTION because ccp has no built in functionality to make user groups nontaxable.

Again thank you for your time and if you can find a better way to modify the code I really want to know about it.

I need tax to be based on both user group and location! this is very important and I am getting a lot of calls from dealers complaining that they are now being charged tax. Please help!