Magento Cart – Remove Excl. Tax Subtotal Only

Well, finally it was really easy... But in fact I have lost almost one week searching the issue of this problem.

It seems that even if you will precise the tax %, in the tax rules, and you will chose tax class "Normal", the same for the product, it will not add tax to your product. It will without tax.

You have to choose tax class Shipping, for tax rule and product. And after that all works like a charm.

Found how to do this (programatically)....

Under {magento_base}/app/design/frontend/base/default/template/tax/checkout/

Edit file grandtotal.phtml
(I suggest you make a backup of the file just in case).

Find the line:

<?php if ($this->includeTax() && $this->getTotalExclTax()>=0):?>

Delete the subsequent lines:

<tr>
    <td style="<?php echo $this->getStyle() ?>" class="a-right" colspan="<?php echo $this->getColspan(); ?>">
        <strong><?php echo $this->helper('tax')->__('Grand Total Excl. Tax')?></strong>
    </td>
    <td style="<?php echo $this->getStyle() ?>" class="a-right">
        <strong><?php echo $this->helper('checkout')->formatPrice($this->getTotalExclTax()) ?></strong>
    </td>
</tr>

This change means it will now only show the tax inclusive line in the cart review.

Hope this helps someone else!