We have Sales tax which is just on the product then in some cases
Shipping Tax. The Sales tax rate can and is most cases different than
shipping tax.
I have not seen sales tax that includes shipping, unless it got slipped
in when I wasn't looking. lOL.
So the sales taxs should be Associated with the order. the Shipping tax
should be associated with the shipping charge. Then you get into a split
shippment where items have mulitple destinations so the shipping will
have different tax for each destination.
Si Chen sent the following on 10/19/2006 10:46 AM:
Hey everybody -
I'm having some problems with taxes and shipping and am coming up with
solutions which seem very complicated to me, so I wanted to know if
anybody has a better way to address these:
1. I want to set pro-rate shipping to "N" and tax shipping to "Y", so
we tax shipping. It seems though that what happens is the shipping
charge is charged on the first invoice of an order, but the tax is still
pro-rated across the whole order. For example, if the shipping is $10
and the tax is $1, and I ship half the order, then my first invoice will
have $10 of shipping and $0.50 of tax, and the second invoice will have
$0 of shipping but $0.50 of tax.
I think the problem is that the tax is not related to the shipping, so
InvoiceServices does not know whether to pro-rate it or not. It seems
the only solution is to add a relationship from OrderAdjustment back to
OrderAdjustment, so I can denote that a particular tax adjustment is for
another Shipping adjustment. This seems to be a bit complicated. Does
anybody know of a better solution?
2. The bigger problem is this: suppose I want to add new shipping
charges to my order as each shipment is shipped and have them invoiced.
Right now there does not seem to be a relationship which can tell me
which OrderAdjustment has already been invoiced, so I can just invoice
the new ones. We can of course calculate all invoiced shipping charges
and subtract it from the sum of all order shipping charges, but that
doesn't actually tell us which particular line item of shipping charge
to invoice--and hence we can't copy over the description field. It
seems that we would need an OrderAdjustmentBilling similar to
OrderItemBilling.
3. We want to invoice actual shipping charges. Should we be using
ShipmentRouteSegment's actualTransport?
Best Regards,
Si
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