We've got a store that will change what's taxable depending on the State (US State, not order state 😛). For example, in New York only accessories and shipping will be taxed, but in Florida the entire order will be taxable. Am I correct in thinking that I can create a new tax group for the products that will change (the products that don't have the same taxable status in all zones), and only assign the zones to this group that apply to where they're taxed? This is all complicated, even trying to type it out it I'm not sure I'm explaining it right. I'm mostly just trying to talk it out to make sure I'm not way off base.

You have two possible solutions really with taxes. You can either build out a tax category for each product and then assign a tax rate for that category and its zone. Or you can just make an all encompassing calculator and return rates depending on some ruby code.

Got it. This is definitely more complicated than we usually go, I think all our shops before this have all been able to rely on a single tax group that all taxable products were in.

Yeah, generally speaking you have a simple tax category for products that are non-regulated and don't have special taxes/fees associated to them. Then people usually make another tax category, say with canned goods or electronics, and collect the recycling fee.

Good point. I'm not great at remembering to write specs, I forget about those as an option >.>