How do I exclude certain items from sales tax?

[klbrook]

I have food and non-food products on my site, and I need to exclude the food items from sales tax. Is there a way to do this in Payments Standard or another level of Paypal account? 

BTW, I'm using Wordpress and the Cart66 plugin.

Thanks in advance.

[snowshoe]

Couple options: 

You can include the tax override variable in your item button code, set the value to 0.

Now how you do that depends on the type of code your using, hosted, non-hosted or hyperlink.

For non-hosted code:

<input type="hidden" name="tax" value="0.00">

For hyperlink:

&tax=0.00

For hosted:

There's a tax override setting.

All you have to do figure out what type of code you're using. 

[ProfoundLove]

I have a similar question. How do I exclude sales tax when the customer lives outside my state? They shouldn't have to pay sales tax to Oklahoma, should they?

[snowshoe]

How and when you collect tax is based your states tax requirements, each state is different.

To exclude everyone outside your state is easy.  In your account profile, you setup your tax calculations and only add your state to table along with the rate.  If you are required to have different rates within your state, you can then add specific Zips to the table to cover those areas.