add new product price includes tax

[nigelt]

It looks like when I add a new product, the price I enter is assumed to be excluding tax.
Is there a setting somewhere, so the price I enter actually includes tax ?

I'm having to sit here with a calculator and work out the excluding tax price every time I add a product.
It would be a lot easier, just to enter the price I want to charge the customer.
Thanks

[pawanesh]

System > Settings > checkout

Display Prices With Tax: on/off

[nigelt]

Thanks for that.
Not quite what I was after though.
I actually want to add a product and enter a price of say £6.00 which is the  vat inclusive price that I want to charge the customer.
Rather than doing what I have to at the moment, which is enter a price of £5

If that makes sense :-)

[abantecart]

What I understand, you need to include tax in the price.
If this is correct, you can display product prices with tax. Enable setting in  system -> settings -> checkout -> Display Prices with tax

[nigelt]

I'm not talking about displaying the price to the customer, I'm talking about when you actually set up a product from new in the back end (catalog / products)
The price you enter has to be (by the looks of it) excluding tax.

That means I have to deduct the tax from my selling price, and enter that into the price box.
Dont really want to do that calculation for every product I'm adding :-(

[llegrand]

On the product page if your pricing INCLUDES your taxes,  select NONE in the Tax Class field -  that will override whatever settings you have, if any, in the global settings for taxes.

No taxes will be calculated for that item.

Lee

[nigelt]

Hi Lee
Ah ! But if I set the tax class field to NONE, then it shows the tax as zero on checkout.

I was just trying to save myself from having to enter a price excluding tax when creating a product.
With my current ecommerce system there is a global option "Price entered includes / excludes tax"

Maybe one day abantecart will have a similar option :-)

[llegrand]

yes you are correct -  that method does show the checkout pricing with no taxes.  Perhaps you could add a message to your pages,  or your checkout page stating that prices include taxes.   That could hold you until there is a coded solution in the Cart.

If you are shipping outside of your area - are you still required to collect VAT?  Just curious.

Lee

[nigelt]

Hi Lee
Yes, based in the UK and we charge vat on all areas of uk and most of eu.
I'll just enter the products excluding tax and leave it at that..

A further complication is that you only charge tax on shipping IF the product you're sending is taxable.
If the product is non taxable (eg childrens clothes or books), then you dont charge tax on shipping..
Abantecart really needs to charge tax on shipping depending on if tax is charged on the product..
I'll leave that for another day though !
Thanks for all help, really appreciate the fast responses.

[abantecart]

Did you try to set up default tax rate in settings ?

There is a tax class selection for shipping. Look inside extensions -> shipping
You can apply tax on shipping.

Hope this helps

[nigelt]

Hi
Yes, I'm using the shipping extension.
You can set the tax rates on shipping no problem, but If, for instance I am selling a child's coat which is zero rated tax, the shipping still charges tax because of the shipping tax setting.
If I set the shipping tax setting to zero and sell an adult jacket with IS taxable, no tax is charged on the shipping.

I'll have to look to see how other carts manage it and report back !

[gordontaylor]

On the product page, you can set the tax class to NONE for products that don't need to be taxed.