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Originally Posted by cflsystems
The first part about the WA State sales taxes - I have a mod that connects directly to WA State DOR and applies correct tax to WA purchases based on shipping address. There is no need to maintain anythign within XC.
As for turning site into catalog only - as others mentioned - not just copy/paste solution, it does require changes to few files and usually where you apply the changes depends on the cart version and if files are modified form originals.
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We actually have two problems:
1. The tax rate problem (we're currently doing it by 5-digit zip code)
2. Reporting taxes to the state by zip code. Right now, it's a manual job that's very labor intensive for our bookkeeper.
Any automated solution has to handle both problems. We actually get very few sales from our site (most sales come from Amazon, the 800-pound gorilla of the eBook world). And even fewer of those sales are from within the state (maybe 2 - 3 per month).
Right now, it would be easier and more cost effective to direct buyers to Amazon or other retailers and take the "hit" (usually around 30%) on the sales price. We're actually publishers and it was probably not wise to think we were also retailers (but Amazon was only paying 35% royalties when we started out and we were actually selling more on our site than via Amazon).