[GNC] Sales Tax Report

[Michael or Penny Novack]

On 1/18/2020 10:53 PM, Adrien Monteleone wrote:
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> If you need to break down sales by customer location, that can get real messy really fast. GnuCash isn’t really set up for it out of the box.

But you HAVE to do that for mail order or internet sales. Else you don't 
know whether the items are taxable, at what rate, and what state gets it.

My earlier comment is that you may not be collecting/keeping the 
(correct) state for that location because the post office serving that 
location might be in a different state << you probably only have the 
customer's MAILING address, town, zip, state but that will not be the 
legal state of that location in all cases.>>

Like I said, in the same boat as many businesses. I do not recall any 
vendors with whom I am currently doing business ask for the information  
"in what state is the location of your mailing address?" In MY case, I 
know that the state is correct (but the "town" is not, has political and 
excise tax ramifications but not sales tax. But I know people for whom 
the state is "incorrect". Mind, I don;t think you are likely to get into 
trouble over this because "same boat".

By contrast, in my working days, where I worked DID collect/keep "legal 
state" (aka, the contract state ) in addition to "mail state" because it 
was THAT state's laws that would apply to the insurance contract, not 
those of the state that delivered the mail.

Michael D Novack