Tax by County (US)

Hello,

I went trough the forum and previous posts trying to figure out how Hikashop must be configured in order to have different tax rules according to customer address (County). A question previously asked but I was not able to succeed with some of the options.

I know is possible to make Country -> State then the State-County, but this will be an issue in case international sales are required.

I also tried adding New Zones (Counties) and make it Sub Zones of the State (example, created Alameda, Sacramento and setup as California Sub zones.)
Then added Tax rules only for those zones but I'm facing two issues:

- The first is this didn't worked, I tried adding a postal code just for testing and didn't work also.
- The second is how should I link the County field (added as a custom address field) with the zone or tax rule?

Goal: The Idea is having different tax rules per county within an state. For example, in California there will be a tax rule of 7.5% for 57 Counties and 8% for 1 County. Same with other States varying the %.

Question: How should I proceed to achieve this goal? is ok if requires some coding, but before adding hundreds of Counties, I would like to be sure is working. I will appreciate any suggestion or workaround on this you may be able to provide.

Remarks: The county will be a field on the address. It will be a dropdown to avoid different ways to write it.

Thank you in advance.

I noticed that international sales were mentioned in the original post. Be aware that Tax Cloud won't handle the international transactions if that's indeed a real concern: service.taxcloud.net/hc/en-us/articles/2...international-sales-

I have had a Taxcloud account for some time and it is not FREE unless you agree to allow them to collect taxes for you in ALL of the States where they have an agreement established. You will end up being on the hook for sales tax collections and reporting in no less than 23 States and if you only go with your own State (which is only where I would charge and collect sales tax) you will be assessed a $10 monthly fee.

Another issue was that when the final test transaction was processed and payment was made through PayPal the transaction was not recognized by Taxcloud so my site would not be changed over to LIVE in their system and the information reported to PayPal was incorrect so the transaction was denied by them because the amounts didn't match (the HikaShop invoice was for one amount, that included shipping and sales tax, but the amount that was reported to PayPal for processing was one cent higher so PayPal refused the transaction).

With this information now, what is the best way for me to setup my County based sales taxes without having to use the Taxcloud service because I am not going to pay $10 per month just in case I actually make an online sale within my State. Suggestions anyone?