Tax Rates
Please note: You may configure tax rates, but Kiwee doesn't yet use them. This will be supported in the next release.
Kiwee supports a flexible tax rate management system that supports both Sales- and Value-Added- tax types. There are two entries that must be configured for tax calculations to work properly.
First, you must create tax rate entries for the regions where you must charge tax. This applies a tax rate to the customer's order, if the customer is in the region where you must charge tax. This is done by postal code prefix comparison. For example, if you are located in Connecticut, USA, you must charge 6% sales tax to Connecticut residents. You would therefore enter a tax rate such as:
| Postal Code |
Description | Rate |
| 06 | Connecticut | 6 |
To charge VAT you would enter a similar line, but, since you must charge VAT no matter where the recipent is, you would enter a record with a blank Postal Code. If you want to make exceptions. such as if you do not wish to charge VAT for U.S. customers, create a blank Postal Code entry that charges VAT, then entries with postal codes for the U.S., with no tax rates applied.
After setting up the rates, you must then configure each product. Each product has a 'Taxable Amount' field. Sales Tax users may use this to apply tax to appropriate items - set the item's price as its taxable amount for taxable items, or to 0 for non-taxable goods such as food products. For instance, a $5.99 product should be listed as 5.99 for its taxable amount, or 0.00 if no tax should be applied.
VAT users must charge tax against the 'value added' to the product. Simply enter this value in the 'Taxable Amount' field for the product. For example, a 5.99 product for which 2.99 of value was added (purchased at 3.00, 2.99 added, final price 5.99), enter 5.99 as the item's price, 2.99 as the item's Taxable Amount.