[GNC] Automatic sales tax

[David Carlson]

Here in Illinois it varies by county, city, merchandise category, service
category, seller category and sometimes by such arcane variables as library
district (well, that last one may be a slight exaggeration).

On Sun, Feb 20, 2022, 6:33 PM Michael or Penny Novack <
stepbystepfarm at comcast.net> wrote:

> On 2/20/2022 4:33 PM, Don Robertson wrote:
> > Seems most other software will do this - Xero, MYOB etc. For open
> > source fans, Kmymoney seems pretty good.
> >
> > And before you start mailing me personally, if you don't want to hear
> > what people think of your software, perhaps you should consider
> > removing this from all your posts:
>
> Correctly? I doubt that ANY software does sales tax absolutely correctly.
>
> Here in the US the issue is sales tax which varies by state (both rate
> and what tax is or is not applied to).  For internet sales, that would
> be the state of the location where delivery is to be made.
>
> Well ......has any vendor with whom you have done business ever
> collected that information? Yes of course, asked for you address, but
> did the vendor ALSO ask you "what state is that address in?". I rather
> suspect most vendors as well as most writers of the relevant software
> are aware of the fact that postal address (mail delivery) does NOT
> respect state boundaries and so the "tax state" of all addresses located
> close to a state boundary are suspect (might be different than the PO
> state).
>
> To be absolutely correct, would need to collect that information from
> the customer OR use mapping databases to locate the (physical) address
> and see what state that was in.
>
> Michael D Novack
>
> PS -- My working days was doing software for a life insurance company.
> We DID collect "contract state" for the policy record because could make
> a very big difference which state's laws would apply.
>
>
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