Gift Cards, don't want them taxed

[MBroberg]

Hi,

I'm using Joomla 3.5.1 and Virtuemart 3.0.16.  I wish to sell gift cards on my site.  Purchases made by Ohio residents are taxed but they should not be taxed on gift card purchases.  How do I override the sales tax rules for individual products (gift cards).  So far I have been able to fumble my way through most issues I have encountered but I've searched and cannot find any information on this issue.

Thanks,
Mike Broberg
www.OhioPenworks.com

[GJC Web Design]

Put them all in one category and filter the tax by cat..

[MBroberg]

Thank you for your reply.  They are all in one category, titled "Gift Cards".  I don't know what you mean by filtering them.

[GJC Web Design]

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[MBroberg]

Thanks

[MBroberg]

I'm still stuck.  The tax rule I have set up is to charge residents of Ohio 7.5% tax.  I have 4 product categories (Ball Point Pens, Fountain Pens, Roller Ball Pens, Gift Certificates).  I have tried to apply my tax rule to only the categories I want taxed (all except Gift Certificates).  I set it up just as shown in the example above,I've tried dozens of other combinations and cannot get it to not charge tax to Ohio Residents buying Gift Certificates.  Very frustrated.  What on earth am I doing wrong?

[GJC Web Design]

have u switched on the debug to see if there is something there to help?

[MBroberg]

No,

I am an extreme novice.  If I did turn on debug I doubt that I would know what I was looking at. 

[MBroberg]

I was able to solve this issue (well, not me, but I found someone who could tell me how.)  For anyone else who might have this problem here is what I did.

Went to:  www/administrator/components/com_virtuemart/helpers/calculationh.php, line 866

It read:                        if(!empty($rule['subTotal'])) {

I change it to this:      if(isset($rule['subTotal'])) {

So far everything is acting like it is supposed to.

Thanks GJC for your responses. 

[GJC Web Design]

and this problem was that the State filtering of the rule was ignored?

[dimi2013]

This is a problem I had as well. I set them up as in the attached images and it's all set. I did, however, create a simple Gift Cards category and then put all the gift cards in there. Didn't override anything.