Randy, In a nutshell, if the business maintains a location (office, store, branch store, P.O. box for incorporation, etc.) in the same state as the customer, tax should be applied and collected by the business. If not, it is the responsibility of the customer to determine the amount of tax owed on the transaction and pay that amount to the appropriate agency (the local tax man).
Please understand that this is a super generalization and may not apply to all states / situations. Also, consider that the statement above is made by a guy who develops web sites and pays someone else to do his taxes. This is the conclusion I came to after some research last year. If you find out something different, please let us know. USPS, FEDEX, and UPS all maintain web services to get shipping rates. Whatever you choose to use, you will be required to create an account with them in order to use thier online tools. ~Max On 6/26/07, Adkins, Randy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have built shopping carts in the past for software and such but have > never had to deal with > shipping cost and adding taxes to the cost. > > So here are my two questions: > > 1. Tax Question: If a customer in South Carolina purchases an item from > a vendor in Florida, > what tax rate should be applied? Florida? SC? > > 2. In regards to #1, If it is from the customer's location, does anyone > have an API or know of a web services to > get those rates? > > 3. Shipping Cost: I know there was an API for USPS but I can not find > it.. (yes I hit Google). Does anyone have an API such as that or know of > a services/place I can get one? > > Thanks!! > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| ColdFusion MX7 by Adobe® Dyncamically transform webcontent into Adobe PDF with new ColdFusion MX7. Free Trial. http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion?sdid=RVJV Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:282310 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
