Look at vertexinc.com. They should have a product called vertex for sales tax.
Kevin King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Larry is right, logic has nothing to do with taxes. Strategically, I've found the best way to do tax calculations is to first assign codes to different tax types and then group these codes into a collection for a specific spot on a map (i.e. geocode). Certain areas will have city, county, state, transportation, education, or even just-for-the-sport-of-it tax types and the boundary of which tax types apply to a given area could be separated by a dirt road that doesn't even appear on a map. There are also tax rules for specific products being sold to specific areas or specific types of customers in specific areas and every combination of madness extended from there. Making matters worse, boundaries, tax rates, eligibility, exemptions, exceptions, etc. change at a moments notice. The coding of the calculation is itself not rocket science, but the collection of data to support those calculations is excessive even by government standards. For this reason products like Vertex that manage this mind-numbing minutae will always be needed in a country whose government severely obfuscates the obvious and then prosecutes for non-compliance. -Kevin [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.PrecisOnline.com ** Check out scheduled Connect! training courses at http://www.PrecisOnline.com/train.html. ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ --------------------------------- Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. Make PC-to-Phone Calls to the US (and 30+ countries) for 2"/min or less. ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
