On Tue, 31 Dec 2019 at 18:48, Colin Smale <[email protected]> wrote: > Just to be clear: in the situation I am referring to, an article priced at > GBP120 in such a mixed shop is GBP120 net to an exporting passenger, but > GBP100 net + GBP20 tax (@20% VAT) to a non-exporting passenger. Everybody > pays the same, but the accounting is different. > > The implementation in a couple of shops is described here: > http://www.whsmithplc.co.uk/vat/ > https://www.schiphol.nl/en/page/taxfree-explained/ > > So the shop is both tax/duty free, and not, at the same time. Hence it does > not fit the proposed description of either duty_free=yes or duty_free=no. So > we need a value to represent "yes, if your next destination is outside the > current customs area." Duty_free=mixed would also not quite cover it IMHO as > it might imply that it only applies to certain goods, whereas the distinction > I am trying to make is based on destination.
What do you consider a definition of "duty free" or "duty free shop" that would be useful to a OSM data consumer? --Jarek _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
