We sell a combination of multiple products as one product, these products can’t be added separte to WordPress so we use a normal product type for the combination.
These products have seperate tax classes (a 9% and a 21% part), so I created a plugin to save the 2 tax values as meta values.
When I place an order I save a custom meta field with the order item with the average tax calculated (like 15% for example).
Within the function calculate_taxes I can get this meta value and use it to calculate the correct tax, but when I do this I will override the core file and I don’t want that because of updates.
How can I override the calculate_taxes function?
I also tried to use the filter woocommerce_find_rates, but I don’t know if I can get the order item inside this filter, otherwise I can use that filter.
EDIT:
The code I use for adding the custom tax inside woocommerce/includes/class-wc-order-item.php
<?php
public function calculate_taxes( $calculate_tax_for = array() ) {
if ( ! isset( $calculate_tax_for['country'], $calculate_tax_for['state'], $calculate_tax_for['postcode'], $calculate_tax_for['city'] ) ) {
return false;
}
if ( '0' !== $this->get_tax_class() && 'taxable' === $this->get_tax_status() && wc_tax_enabled() ) {
$calculate_tax_for['tax_class'] = $this->get_tax_class();
$tax_rates = WC_Tax::find_rates( $calculate_tax_for );
/* CUSTOM PART */
foreach ($tax_rates as $k => $t) {
if (!empty($this->get_meta('_line_tax_rate'))) $t['rate'] = $this->get_meta('_line_tax_rate');
$tax_rates[$k] = $t;
}
/* ENDOF CUSTOM PART */
$taxes = WC_Tax::calc_tax( $this->get_total(), $tax_rates, false );
if ( method_exists( $this, 'get_subtotal' ) ) {
$subtotal_taxes = WC_Tax::calc_tax( $this->get_subtotal(), $tax_rates, false );
$this->set_taxes(
array(
'total' => $taxes,
'subtotal' => $subtotal_taxes,
)
);
} else {
$this->set_taxes( array( 'total' => $taxes ) );
}
} else {
$this->set_taxes( false );
}
do_action( 'woocommerce_order_item_after_calculate_taxes', $this, $calculate_tax_for );
return true;
}