Illinois, I think, charges sales tax on food, unless it has wheat as an
ingredient. So a TWIX bar, which has wheat in it, is tax-free, but a
MARS BAR is taxed.
Some states charge sales tax on certain types of clothing depending on
their price...tennis-shoes are tax-free unless it's an expensive pair,
for example.
Some states consider goods (items) taxable, but services (labor) is not,
while other states tax services and goods.
Most states have a state rate, county rate, and city rate, but in
California there are also tax districts that can overlay city and county
boundaries, charging an additional tax.
Its a crazy quilt patchwork of laws and processes. The folks who provide
the tax rate service earn their income!
Stephen Russell wrote:
Taxes get DEEP as I remember. State, County, City/Parish, etc.
Now do you pay a trifle to check them for every transaction or do you build
a log to keep all these value pairs with a date? Yeah a .001 cent fee per
sale I'd get the rate for each sale. Now if it was 1.00 USD I'd think
twice about the log.
On Thu, Jun 21, 2018 at 5:36 PM Mike <m...@ggisoft.com> wrote:
Interesting...
I just got an email from one of the companies I had spoken with a year
or so ago.
FWIW, TaxCloud.com <https://taxcloud.com/> is the company's website.
As you can imagine, they are swamped with contacts looking for solutions
today. Their website is pretty sluggish.
Mike Copeland
Richard Kaye wrote:
Thanks, Mike. That was my assumption, as well. As you say, trying to
keep up with tax regulations in 50 states (well, 45) is what makes a
service like this worth paying for. And I have no problems paying for
something where value is received. After all, I charge my clients for my
services. Having said that, nobody wants to be gouged...
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rk
-----Original Message-----
From: ProfoxTech <profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com> On Behalf Of Mike
Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2018 3:46 PM
To: profoxt...@leafe.com
Subject: Re: Fun with US sales tax
There are several, and the common scheme is to charge you a rate for
each access via the API. Usually something in the tenths of a cent range.
So if you need a rate for a quote, you pay.
If you need a rate for a sale, you pay.
If you just need to check a rate for confirmation, you pay.
Or, you can wade into the swamp of 50 different tax schemes full of
incredible complexity. For fun, read up on California's sales tax. Oye.
Sorry, but I don't have any recommendation for which company to use for
tax compliance as I've avoided the problem so far.
Mike C
Richard Kaye wrote:
Our wondrous Supreme Court has opened the Pandora’s Sales Tax box with
today’s decision to allow states to require retailers with no physical
presence in a particular state to collect sales tax for that state. Leaving
aside any thoughts on the wisdom of this decision, which I have not looked
at, I’d like to call on the collective wisdom of those who deal with
invoicing to find out if any of you are using some sort of service
provider/API to retrieve tax rates, presumably by submitting the address of
the buyer to some kind of web API.
For our non-US ProFox friends, you can just sit back and laugh. 😊
TIA
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rk
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