Apply Discount After Taxes config not working

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Our client offers employer-subsidized healthcare items, vitamins, etc. The employer pays 80% of the retail cost of the products. Their employees (the store customers) must pay the full amount of taxes, calculated on the retail price.

Not all products are subsidized, so we can't simply do a discount at checkout, it must be by product category.

So we need to configure this for example:
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Retail price = $11.70 each
Tax (8%) = $0.94
Less 80% discount on retail price = -$9.36 each
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Final price of the item = $2.34 each
Taxes based on retail, before discount = $0.94
Total paid by customer at checkout = $3.28 each
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In summary, what we need is Retail Price + (Retail Price x Tax) - (Retail Price x Discount) = Final price
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What we are getting in the checkout, however, is
Retail Price + [(Retail Price - Discount) x Tax] = Final price

We have a test product set up (see screenshots) that shows the full retail and the discounted price, and you can see with the math in the checkout that discounts are being applied differently than what we are trying to achieve.

How can this be done, so we will get Retail Price + (Retail Price x Tax) - (Retail Price x Discount) = Final price ?

Hi,

The discounts in percentage of the products will be calculated the same way regardless of the "apply discount" option of the configuration.
If you want to change the behavior of that, you need to look at the function addDiscount of the file administrator/components/com_hikashop/classes/currency.php
I guess that you'll want to avoid the calls to the getTaxedPrice function which recalculates the taxes after the discount is applied to the product price.