No, not just for fun. That is what enables what I've described, along with the VAT TaxAuthority fields which must also be specified.
> Hi David,
>
>> The current VAT stuff wasn't implemented with just the UK in mind, but it
> should work for that. Note that the current implementation basically requires
> one ProductStore per country where the VAT tax applies as the TaxAuthority
> settings used for each store are on the ProductStore entity itself. If you point
> those to a TaxAuthority with the tax set up as desired, then the tax should be
> included in all prices displayed. Is that working for you?
>> How it works in the cart is another question... This feature was sponsored by
> a company that has a custom checkout process and such, so I don't think the
> default cart template has stuff to show the price with tax and then show the
> total tax amount and stuff like that. Also, more than that might be needed for
> compliance in different places...
>> If this is something you'd like to help with that would be great. If I
> remember right the prices in the cart do _not_ have the tax included, so that
> needs to be calculated on the fly (basically the tax adjustment needs to be
> added to the cart item price as it is displayed).
>> -David
>
> Is the "Show Prices With Vat Tax" field there (in Stores/Store) just for fun ?
>
> Jacques
>
>
>>
>> Ray Barlow wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I've been playing with the price including VAT options in the accounting
>>> module and trying to get a sample data set up and running that operates
>>> in line with UK principles of displaying prices which we've entered
>>> including VAT and then showing the VAT charges in the summary pages and
>>> invoices etc.
>>>
>>> Unfortunately I'm not having to much success as the cart summary page
>>> insists on adding the VAT to the total. So a few simple questions like
>>> has anybody got the latest SVN running with UK VAT compliance? Has the
>>> price including VAT feature been implemented through out the system or
>>> is it still work in progress and what remains to be done?
>>>
>>> Any clues or help appreciated as it would be really great to create a
>>> sample demo set of data that works using these features.
>>>
>>> Ray
>>>
>>>
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