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Pheasant
#1 Posted : Tuesday, September 22, 2009 8:39:10 PM
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Hello everyone, New to the forum...hope you can help.

I have been building my wife's site for some time now.

www.myyarnboutique.com

We sell specialty yarn and accessories. We also live in New York and even when the State gives us a tax break they screw things up. Our normal tax on items is 8% but for clothing related materials, yarn and buttons, the tax is 4%.

Currently I am using only PayPal as a shop cart. PayPal will let me set up a tax for NY and separate taxes for the rest of the country, in this case I want it to be $0 tax for the rest of the country.

But as far as I know, PayPal will only let me set up one tax instance for NY and since I need to charge 4% for some items and 8% for others, that won't work.

I can set up taxes for each item in my HTML code so that would allow my to charge the required 4% and 8% but when I do this, EVERYONE in the country gets charged tax.

So my question is, Can I set it up in my code to only charge NY residents tax? Or can anyone see a more eloquent way around this problem?
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nds_webdesign
#2 Posted : Thursday, October 15, 2009 2:01:52 PM
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You would want to set up a javascript on your page to dynamically create the button and use the pre-population variables to collect the buyers information on your page.

Basically,

Buyer enters their address information on your site, they click "Continue", the script runs, the script then checks the State field and if (State == NY) then it applies the 4 or 8 percent tax, if it is another State then it applies a 0 percent tax, then it sends them to another page that has a "Pay Now" button, they are then taken to PayPal for payment.

the only downside to the above is that if they enter say California on your site, then get to PayPal and change the Address to NY then the tax would not be applied.

You can find the variables for prepopulation here:

https://cms.paypal.com/u...lvariables#id08A6HI0J0VU
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