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Ash Smith
Ash Smith

Reputation: 290

Remove tax during checkout in Magento

A project I’m working on allows customers to buy products that have the ability to be VAT exempt (through disability/chronic sickness). I have added an additional step to the checkout process so the customer can easily fill in the VAT exempt form. Once that form has been filled in I need to remove tax from their quote/order.

I have done a fair bit of digging into how I could potentially do this. Below is the code I got so far, however it works but the moment I go through to our payment provider the tax has been reset. Even when I use Check / Money Order payment option.

file: app/code/local/Vat/Exempt/controllers/OnepageController.php (method: saveExemptAction()) 

$quote = $this->getOnepage()->getQuote();
$quote->setCustomerTaxClassId(6); // Tried forcing a custom tax class id
$quote->setCustomerGroupId(4); //also tried forcing a different customer group...

foreach($quote->getAllItems() as $item){
                   // Attempt to zero the tax on each item
                    $item->setTaxAmount(0);
                    $item->setBaseTaxAmount(0);
                    //re-calculate & save each item.
                    $item->calcTaxAmount();
                    $item->save();
                }
 $quote->collectTotals()->save();

Any advice would be much appreciated!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 5011

Answers (1)

OSdave
OSdave

Reputation: 8585

The easiest way would be to change the customer's group to a group that doesn't pay VAT (you can define that in Sales > Tax > Manage Tax Rules).
After they fill up the form you change their group ($customer->setGroup(self::GROUP_EXEMPT_VAT)->save();) and from this moment they won't pay tax.
Let me know if that would work for your issue and if you need more help.

Upvotes: 1

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