Might think about ECA's sends a message to user that tax is unable to be calcuated and contact a consultant to have this upgraded. or have a screen they are sent to, to add their default tax info.
Ritesh Trivedi sent the following on 8/7/2008 12:28 PM: > Hi All, > > Current tax calculations in Ofbiz are quiet complex and hence difficult to > understand completely. I have run in to situations (during testing) which > highlights the fact that user entry errors can cause tax calculations to be > mis-calculated. e.g. If user enters City and Zip code which are not related > - meaning somehow geo_assoc for that doesnt exist (may be because the tax > data imported by me wasnt didnt have the complete list or was done by the > user on purpose or unknowingly) I dont see a way to have a catch all tax > where the tax e.g. in the case of California, if none no tax authority could > be found and if the state was CA, the the default tax charged should be > 8.25% or whatever. > > > For proper tax calculations for California in Ofbiz I can only have 1 tax > authority and since in California CBOE publishes tax rates by the city I > have chosen to define city based tax authorities only. I cannot have both CA > state tax authority along with city based tax authorities since ofbiz tax > calculations seems like it adds those 2 while calculating tax for the cart. > > Let me know if my understanding of tax authority in Ofbiz is off and if > there is a way to have catch all. > > Thanks
