Product Tax rules & Destination State

Question

Hi partners,
What's the best way to set up Tax Options for differently taxed products in Business Catalyst?
We have 3 types of product taxes: GST 5%, HST 12% and tax excempt 0%.
Some products have taxes and some don't.
Depending on website visitor's Destination State - the taxes will change.
A couple of examples:
Product
Canada - British Columbia
Canada - Other Provinces
United States
Candle
HST 12%
GST 5%
0%
Honey
0%
0%
0%
It looks like Taxes and Destination States are merged in Business Catalyst.
Once I add the Tax Options in Business Catalyst, for example:
HST 12%
GST 5%
Tax Excempt 0%
They appear in the Shopping Cart as Destination State.
Is there a way to set a different Tax to each product and
still be able to select a correct Destination State in the shopping cart?

Answer 1

Cody,
The solution that worked for us:
1) setup a tax for each province - examples Ontario 13%, Alberta 12%, etc. (Unfortunatelly there is no clean way to display GST & PST separately - so you'll need to combine them into a single rate, ie 12%)
2) DON'T apply tax to each product (just leave it as Not Applicable)
3) Enable destination state tax on shopping cart (this will enable the Destination State dropdown in the shopping cart, which will calculate the correct tax)
If you have different products on your website which require more than 1 tax in a specific State/Province (for example, in British Columbia you have one product taxed at GST 5%, and another product taxed at GST+PST 12%), then there IS NO WAY to do this properly in BusinessCatalyst (as of April 2013)