Tax exemption rules

[kharri1073]

I am trying to setup accounts in actinic some with exemption and some without exemption.

If i setup an account without an exemption number, can the customer put in their taxid number in the checkout process in order for their order to become exempt?

I ask this because people without customer accounts can exempt their order, tax exempt customers can allow tax on their order but i can not get actinic to allow a customer with an account and no tax exempt id to remove tax from their order.

I'm wondering if this is works as designed or not.

[TraceyG]

Hi Kevin,

i can not get actinic to allow a customer with an account and no tax exempt id to remove tax from their order.

This is working as designed, however, there is a perl hack that will allow a customer account to exempt themselves if it is not defined in the customer account, this will also allow an exempt customer to pay VAT by unticking the 'exemption' box online:

- browse to your site folder and locate the 'ActinicOrder.pm' file (take a backup)
- open the file in a text editor such as notepad
- search for:

# gather the data

- you should see:

	#
	# gather the data
	#
	if(!$::g_InputHash{ADDRESSSELECT} )		# if address select is not defined use input hash, otherwise leave account data untouched

- replace this with:

        #
        # if tax exempt option is included into checkout page then allow to override online
        #
        if ((defined $::g_InputHash{'TAXEXEMPT1DATA'}) or (defined $::g_InputHash{'TAXEXEMPT2DATA'}))

- close and save the file
- update your site.

Actinic is not able to provide any detailed support for script changes made. If you find that there is a problem, an original copy of the script can be found within the 'Original' folder in your installation. Copy this into your site folder or restore your backup.