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My first store using dashCommerce 3.0 is located in Florida, which has a state sales tax of 6%. In addition, the various counties have discretionary sales surtaxes which can add up to another 1.5%. I've found a resource that shows me ZIP Codes by County.

The State of Florida says that my client needs to charge tax to any FL purchasers based upon the shipping address. If an address is in a county with a surcharge, we need to charge the surcharge.

Is this what the Region Code Tax Provider is designed to do?

Do I feed in each ZIP Code individually with its tax rate including the discretionary?

This is what it was designed to do. You can also use the default tax rate in cases where no matching zip code / region code is found - although you would be charging tax on out of state at that point.

Excellent! Now I just wish FL had fewer ZIP codes!!!  

Thanks!

Use the dashCommerce Tax Web Service and you don't have to type anything !!

While it would certainly be an easier solution, it costs a lot of money and contains a lot more info than I need! Now if you offered a 1 year subscription for one state's worth of data for like $25, I'd definitely consider it!!! But meanwhile, I guess I'll be typing codes in!!!

When I have a project with a larger scope and bigger budget, we might talk about this again!

Thanks!

Okay, I've added all 1445 ZIP Codes for FL with their associated current tax rates and I'm happy. (NO, I did NOT add them manually!!!)

However, when I'm in ADMIN under Tax Provider Configuration > Data > Available Region Codes, I can see the first ten (10) and additional page numbers below them, but the paging does not work! Is this a bug, or something I created by adding the items directly to the database???

P.S. What if I wanted to turn this into a Tax Provider for sale? I've done all the work now, and could easily update it annually!

This is a bug, please log it at CodePlex. There is an easy workaround though. Find the DataGrid in the page and change the CssClass from adminDataGrid to adminDataGridNoPage.

As far as a provider for sale - I'm not sure I see how you could do it since you are just using the RegionCodeTaxProvider. I suppose you could sell the data, but there is a lot to keep up on there . . . Let me know.

Bug logged as requested! Thanks for the workaround! In case anybody else finds this and wants the details... the page to be changed is:

admin/controls/configuration/taxproviders/regioncodeconfiguration.ascx

and it's actually the SkinId that needs to be changed (not CssClass) to add the NoPage at the end!!! The result is that on that Admin page you have a very long list with no paging.

I'm not sure there would be a great market in FL tax data by itself, and I don't really think I want to commit to keeping up on it! So ixnay that idea!