On Tuesday, August 18, 2015 at 4:25:03 PM UTC+2, David Bruchmann wrote: > > Taxes are quite complicated. > In Germany for common products are 2 different taxes on common products: > either 7% or 19%. >
Yes, these are VAT. (MvSt.) There can be one, two or more VAT categories depending on country. Finland has 3 + tax free: 1. Standard rate 24% (goods) 2. Reduced rate I 14% (food & restaurants) 3. Reduced rate II 10% (books, pharmaceuticals, public transport, cinema, newspapers) 4. VAT Free 0% (doctor, dentist, hospital, insurance, lottery) > For some higher taxes like for Tobacco and Patrol Products I don't know > how it's calculated at the POS. In general it's possible that it's > calculated at the POS with 19% but with a different value at a B2B point - > honestly I just don't know. > Furthermore there existed some special tax for salt which was abolished but > it had to be expected perhaps that resembling taxes still exist in other > countries, > Tobacco tax, alcohol tax, sugar tax etc taxes are not POS taxes. They are not calculated at POS. They are added to the price at point of manufacture, and part of the product price throughout the retail chain. Only the manufacturer pays the tax to the government. > As long as you plan to include an option for different unlimited > tax-classes I don't see a problem here, but concerning the abolished > salt-tax I don't know if there have been even 2 taxes on one product. > In USA they have very weird and complex, illogical tax system, as mentioned earlier, tax depends on which product category, quantity of sale, in which state you are located, whether on reservate or private land, on the street widht, the house number, the strenght on wind, the tide and amount of sunshine your shop gets :D > As far as I see a configurable option would be nice, so even for US never > had to be programmed anything extra. > Most of the wold uses tax included prices. This is true specially in counties using VAT. The logic of VAT is simple and similar in all countries using VAT. But the USA does not use VAT, it uses sales tax, with complex rules varying from state to state.
