[OFBIZ-10679] Regarding national laws when applying taxes on shipping costs

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: Trunk, Upcoming Branch
• Component/s: accounting, framework, order
• Labels: VAT tax
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Benjamin Jugl
• Created: 28/Nov/18 14:21
• Updated: 11/Jan/22 08:49

Description

As mentioned in OFBIZ-4160 there are different ways to approach tax-calculation on shipping-costs.

While some countries have a fixed price for this, others calculate the delivery just like the delivered good (or a weighted version, if multiple taxrates are applied to the shipping).

As I stated:

[..]it is advisable to introduce a new ProductCategory "TAX_SHIPPING". This could be administered through TAX_AUTHORITY_RATE_PRODUCT for individual tax authorities.  Then there could be a condition before my newly implemented logic, to use this tax rate, if it is found, and if it is not, my logic is executed.