Re: How are you handling variable tax rates?

[David R. <dr...@su...>]

MR,

I'm curious if you don't actually have a different tax account/line item for 
each municipality, how do you keep track of how much is owed to each agency 
at the end of the reporting period?

Although it might be a pain to enter different line items for each tax 
district/city/local govt you might have more clear reporting.

I'm not sure what your application is, but generally you owe the local city 
taxes only if the transaction occurs in a given city - so there should not be 
but a few tax accounts unless you travel to the customer's premises or sell 
at local tradeshows/conventions, etc.

But - thats only my two cents and their all used up!

-Dave Ratte
dr...@su...

On Wednesday 27 February 2002 03:49 pm, you wrote:
> Tax rates are not tied to a login but are tied to the customers, vendors
> and items.
>
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> On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, MR wrote:
> > At the moment this is annoying but it may soon move up to a problem I'll
> > have to figure out how to solve.
> >
> > We have a base state tax.  Then each county has its own tax rate.
> > And sometimes the local city has their own tax rate.  The county/local
> > rates can be as low as 0% and as high at 1%
> >
> > Right now, the tax rate is tied to the person entering the data.
> >
> > I can work around this by creating a custom inventory item for each
> > state/county and adding that to every invoice.
> >
> > Has anyone done a customization of the tables to place the tax
> > rate to each customer, rather than to the ppl who enter the data?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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