rubyonrailsin

Just kicking this back up in the list.. since I have to launch a shop in the next week..

The VAT is really an issue, and it is not working as it should..

I will try to patch this, so it works for EU... 

Peter.

On Nov 25, 2009, at 11:45 AM, dancinglightning wrote:

Just to clarify the VAT issue for non europeans and also to see if
this is consensus:

In Europe, a correct bill must specify the VAT charged and give the
percentage. Percentage varies as to where you send from, and what you
sell, though mostly it's just one percentage.

Then things differ a little if it's a b2b site: VAT can be 0 for other
countries, otherwise the vat show is just like a sales tax. This is
easily achievable with the current system, so I won't talk about this.

So when talking about prices (in Europe), they basically always
include the VAT, which nobody really cares about, just that it has to
be written on the bill.

This differs from the current system where prices either don't include
the VAT (only for b2b useful) or they include the VAT, but the VAT is
added to the price. That off course leads to funny prices that one has
to give products, and quite likely to unwanted sales prices too.

The issue has been discussed a little before
http://groups.google.com/group/spree-user/browse_thread/thread/cb2ae60556a3765c/06052979b73675db?lnk=gst&q=vat#06052979b73675db
,
but I would propose that the way things are with the VAT is not the
common case.

So we could either change the show_incl_vat 's flag meaning, or if
some really uses it, add a assume_brutto_prices flag.

This assume_brutto_prices would have _no effect_ on prices or totals.
If would only be used for the tax calculation in the order summary. (I
must admit I haven't looked at the implementation yet to see if this
is possible, but that's the idea anyway).

So how do other vat-users think about this ?

Torsten

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