Magento Tax Changer

Due to the Corona pandemic spreading across the world, the German government have decided to lower the VAT (Mehrwertsteuer / MwSt.) in Germany for a 6 month period, starting on 1st July 2020.

To our knowledge the tax changes would be like this:

• 19% Full MwSt. -> 16%
• 7% Reduced MwSt. -> 5%

At the end of this year the taxes will change back to the original percentages.

What the script does

Tax Changer does the following:

• Adds new tax classes, rules and tax rates to the Magento 1 or 2 system
• The old tax rates don't get touched
• All products will be changed, so the new tax rates will be applied according to the former setting.

What the script does not

The script doesn't clear caches or rebuild indexes. Please make sure, that your take care about these actions on your own. If run you want to run the complete processs on command line or as CronJob, you might use the connection-option && to append more commands for this purpose.

Example:

php tax.php && php bin/magento indexer:reindex && php bin/magento c:c

You also might also need to check additional caches (eg. Redis, Varnish, CloudFlare) upfront.

Installation

Download zip file and extract it in the Magento root.

Usage

By default rates will be changed as specified in the script.

$taxes = [
    19 => 16,
    7 => 5,
];

Creating new taxes

Go to the taxchanger directory and run:

php tax.php

If you run into issue with timeouts or memory exhaustion, you might want to adjust the limits like this:

php -d memory_limit=1024M -d max_execution_time=0 tax.php

Please adjust these settings according to your needs.

Based on taxes specified in the script this will create new taxes and automatically assign them to the products.

Disable the new taxes

The following commmand will deactivate the new tax rates and apply the old tax rates to the products. The new tax rates will be kept in the system eg. for orders during the year-end closing.

php tax.php -b

Removing new taxes

To remove the new taxes completely from the Magento system run:

php tax.php -r

This will remove all taxes created by taxchanger and assign old taxes to each product.\

IMPORTANT: All records are tracked in the webvision_tax_changer table. You must not change or remove records in this table.

Notes

The script will not create tax rate titles for each store.

Warranty

This script comes without any warranty. Please use it at your own risk and make sure to take backups and test the script in a staging / development environment before you run it on a production system.

Donation / License

This script ist "donate ware" under GPL3.0. We would be glad, if the script is useful for you, if you could donate something via paypal. If you need an invoice, please leave a comment in your donation.

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