New York State Tobacco Tax for Products

[natez311]

Hi,

First off, thanks for all the help you guys have provided in the past. It's helped me with a lot of issues!

The Situation:

For tobacco products, New York State taxes an additional 46% (besides the normal 7% state tax on all products in our store), which makes taxing with shopsite a bit tricky.

The site I am working on currently sells Accessories and Tobacco products. The Accessories only have a normal rate of 7% when purchased (so accessory product = cost + 7%), but Tobacco products have to add on an additional 46% if a user living in NY state purchases them (so tobacco product = cost + 7% + 46%).

My Question:

You can set the tax amount for all products purchased for a specific state, but is there a way to add an additional tax on specific products? If not, has anyone out there experienced this or found a solution? Any help would be appreciated, thanks!

-Nate

[Jim]

What version of ShopSite do you have?

In ShopSite 10sp1 integration with Ava Tax was added. They may be able to handle this situation.
http://shopsite.com/help/10.1/en-US/sc/pro/sales.tax.ava.html

If you have a pro level store you could probably write a routine to be used with the tax api that would add the 7% and then based on one of the special product fields that you use to indicate that it is a tobacco product add the additional tax.
http://shopsite.com/help/10.1/en-US/sc/pro/sales.tax.api.html