How does sales tax and VAT calculation work for E-junkie cart?

1. Go to Admin > Edit E-junkie Cart Sales Tax & VAT Settings.
2. Specify the country from where you will be selling your products. If you are selling from U.S., you will need to enter the zipcode too.
3. If you want to charge VAT, check the "VAT" checkbox. E.U. buyers will be charged the prevailing VAT rate in their country if you are a U.S. merchant. If you are a E.U. merchant, your countries prevailing VAT rate will be charged to the buyer. At present we have no method to validate VAT numbers, so you may wish to do that yourself after purchase and refund any VAT paid to E.U. buyers who are exempt from VAT.
4. If you want to charge sales tax, enter the tax rate under Simple Sales Tax Setting and select which State and/or Country should be charged that tax rate.
5. If you want to charge tax in more than one State/Province, or charge one Country-wide tax rate to be overridden by a different rate for buyers within your State/Province, you can specify additional rates to override the main rate in the Advanced Sales Tax Settings box, following the format indicated there.
6. While adding or editing a product, check the "Tax" option if you want to charge sales tax or VAT on it.

Canadian Merchants:

1. Go to Admin > Edit E-junkie Cart Sales Tax & VAT Settings.
2. Under VAT Settings:
   1. Specify Canada as the country from where you will be selling your products;
   2. Check the box if you want E.U. buyers to be charged VAT.
3. Under Simple Sales Tax Settings:
   1. Enter the GST rate appropriate for your products;
   2. Checkmark the box for Tax buyer from country;
   3. Select Canada as the Country whose buyers should be charged.
4. Under Advanced Tax Settings, specify an overall tax rate for each province that will override the GST-only tax rate, following the example format on that screen:
   1. For Provinces with an HST rate, specify that percentage rate for each of those Provinces (e.g., NL,13.0);
   2. For provinces where PST is compounded on GST or vice-versa:
      1. Convert each percentage rate to a multiplier figure (e.g., 5% becomes 1.05, etc.);
      2. Multiply those figures together (e.g. 5% GST and 7.5% PST would mean 1.05 x 1.075 = 1.12875).
      3. Convert the compounded multipler back to a percentage (e.g., 1.12875 = 12.875%)
      4. Specify that final percentage rate for that Province (e.g. PQ,12.875)
5. Remember to click Submit to save new settings;
6. While adding or editing a product, check the "Tax" option if you want to charge tax according to your settings on that product.

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