On 2/21/22 07:00, Michael or Penny Novack wrote:
On 2/20/2022 7:58 PM, David Carlson wrote:
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).
And not only is it that complex, but the DATA (what IS the
jurisdiction that applies) is typically not available. Almost always
the information by the vendor, just the postal address.
For example, while my town (township) does indeed have a PO with zip
code 01338 that post office delivers no mail (just for PO boxes inside
that post office). On the other hand, four different post office with
zip codes 01330, 01339, 01340, and 01370 do deliver mail to addresses
located in my town. So EVERY street address in my town has some other
town in the address << well one of those isn't a "town" but a village
on the boundary of two towns (townships) >>
There was a period during which when writing a letter to my
Congressman I had to make it very clear, "Yes, I AM a constituent
living in your district in spite of appearances" (the "town" on my
address was outside his district)
And I can think of a merchandise category/seller category tax
difference in my state. Buy a pair of gloves (clothing, not taxed) in
a clothing store/department store vs buy the SAME pair of gloves
(protective gear, taxed) in a hardware store.
BTW --- usually responsibility for figuring sales tax is in the POS
system, not the accounting package being fed by POS (POS would also
interact with the Inventory system). The accounting package is just
one part of an "integrated business system".
Michael D Novack
Here in Washington state the state does post an address file to assigns
rate codes by address. In at least one case two houses with the same
zip+4 are in different location codes. Most web hosts POS systems can
only go down to the zip code level. Thankfully I don't have enough
sales outside the state to worry about taxes in the other states!
--Steve (www.hamflags.com)
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