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[johnay]

Have any of you had to handle a sales tax holiday?

This weekend Virginia is having one, exempting listed clothing items under $100/article and school supplies under $20 each. We've only got a handful of such items so I just flagged them on our site as non-taxable and will switch them back Sunday night at midnight.

I don't see anything in the order import record fields for item tax status, so how does one handle a temporary taxability status change for an item in MOM?

Thanks!

[dseibold]

It seems to me that when you change the status in MOM, all orders processed during that time will automatically receive the benefit of that change. Your Web shopping cart may have charged tax but MOM won't. I'll let you figure out how to deal with any refunds...

When you change the item's status back to taxable, taxes will resume on all transactions after that moment.

[johnay]

That's about what I figured.

I'm guessing importing a batch of orders will have them all using whatever the current tax settings are. I'll have to figure out by next year how to have our import prep split the import file at certain dates & times. Maybe have it read a table of event names and associated start & end times, then append the import file names accordingly as a reminder to switch whatever settings need switching.

I think we may have managed to get through the weekend without selling anything that was temporarily exempt, so bullet dodged.