[SL] Taxes - was: Adding extra custom reports

[C. D. H. <Du...@Du...>]

Ed W wrote:
> Hi
>
>   
>> Seneca has done quite a bit of work creating a tax module for lsmb,
>> this allows for spiffy things like compounding taxes (in Quebec, QST
>> has to be applied on top of total + GST). There are also folks there
>> who do work for hire, and $12k would probably get you an entire
>> re-write if that's what you wanted. :-)
>>     
>
> :-)
>
> What I have in mind in particular is adding a calculated tax column for 
> each line of the invoice (instead of calculating it each time).  This 
> seems to be a sensible addition anyway so that old invoices don't change   
> if you change the tax rate...
>
> In particular I want to have a tick box on each line (as per the 
> Transaction screen) where you can override the calculated tax and change 
> it per row. 
>   
I don't necessarily need a tick per line, but I do need more tax 
flexibility. I need to be able to disable tax if I'm drop shipping out 
of state, or add tax if an out of state customer is picking up the goods 
in my state. In short I need the ability to override the tax logic. On 
January 13, 2005 Dieter wrote the following to me:

    > Tax calculation based on shipto address will be implemented in a future
    > version. This will eliminate the need to create a duplicate customer if
    > shipments are out of state where no tax or a different tax applies.

I guess he didn't lie, as any future release could have improved tax 
logic - we just haven't seen it yet. As far as I'm concerned the tax 
logic is my biggest issue. If LedgerSMB, or any other fork for that 
matter, allowed me tax flexibility I'd jump ship immediately.


Dunc