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Just wondering if it is possible to show the tax separately. Currently the shipping cost is displayed including taxes. Also, I have two methods Standard and Express and the default is always Standard. Is it possible to not have a default so that the customer is forced to choose a method or they can't proceed.

1) Showing the tax separately: VM will display the tax separately in the invoice, and the shipping cost including taxes (if you have VM configured to display those values). If you mean that you want the shipping costs ex taxes and the taxes, but not shipping costs including taxes, then I don't think that's possible, unless you want the same also to happen for the products.

2) If VM has multiple shipment methods, it will not preselect any of them... Do you have a third-party checkout module installed that might preselect the first shipment method?

I'm still confused! The invoice shows the taxes separately but the "select shipping charges" show it included so it makes the shipping charges look higher than they are

The shipping cost is $20 plus $2.60 taxes

That's VirtueMart's default of displaying Shipping with taxes in the "Select a shipment method" page... There is nothing a shipping plugin can do about it. This would need to be changed in Virtuemart's core code...

When I select "Apply Default Rules" the "Select a shipment Method" does not show the tax but displays it on the invoice which is exactly what I want. However, it also applies tax to all products on the invoice regardless of whether or not they are taxable. Could you please explain to me what exactly the "Apply Default Rules" is and where it gets the info. It must pull from the one tax that I have set up because it got the amount right but that tax only applies to specifoc categories which it is overlooking. Since it displays without the tax included I'm confident that I can work with this somehow but just need to understand it a bit more.

I'm just using the stock VirtueMart code, there is nothing new in my plugin, except for the inversion of the tax calculation when ShippingWithTax is used. To achieve that, I had to copy one function from the VM code and extend it in my plugin. Whenever that function changes in the VM code, I have to apply those changes in my plugin, too.

Can you try out the latest beta version 3.96 on my homepage, where I applied one set of changes/bugfixes from the VM code to my plugin.

Best regards,
Reinhold