Configurable product tax issues on asscoaiated products

Question

We have some configurable products that we need to apply tax to but only on the chosen associated product. For example we have a price of £89.95 on the configurable product itself but the associated products have different prices (say £89.9 and £29.95). If the £29.95 associated product is chosen then tax should only be calculated on the £29.95 but for some reason it is being calculated on the headline configurable product price of £89.95 which obviously gives an incorrect tax amount being charged.

Has anyone else come across this and if so is there anyway of getting Magento to apply tax to only the associated product price?

Answer 1

Can't you just use something like Simple Configurable Products?

This extension changes the way that the pricing of Configurable Products works in Magento.

With Simple Configurable Products, the price for configurable products is taken directly from the associated simple products rather than the configurable product itself.

Answer 2

I recommend BCP over SCP:

http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/better-configurable-products.html

You can find it here too: http://www.nr-apps.com/store/bcp-better-configurable-products.html