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 < stepbystepf...@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. > > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
