TOPIC:

can you please tell me how we state the tax in the shipping cost so that it is itemised in the cart under "shipping tax"

Dear Websiteprojects,
In the shipping method configuration you can select how the shipping cost are taxed:
- either NO Taxation
- default taxation (i.e. by country restrictions as defined in the tax definitions), or
- an explicitly selected tax rule (even if the country restriction of that tax is not met).

Typically, you want to use default taxation, which should also correctly handle taxation of shipping costs in cases where the products in the cart have different VAT tax rates.

By default, shipping costs are given before taxes, and the tax on the shipping cost is then added. If you want to give the shipping costs including taxes (so the pre-tax shipping costs are calculated by VM), you can use ShippingWithTax=... instead of Shipping=...

Now, this is actually all that the shipping plugin does. The actual display of the tax amount charged on the shipping cost is actually the task of the cart view. The default cart view of VM3 displays the tax (on product prices as well as on shipping and payment costs) in a separate column:


To modify the display of the cart, you can either use a third-party cart plugin (like the many One-Page checkout plugins), or use a template that displays the cart the way you like/need it.
Alternatively, you can also add a template override of just the cart page yourself (but that requires fiddling with the PHP code of the cart page, so you need to have some programming skills in PHP).

Best regards,
Reinhold