Most of my clients get around this problem by incorperating the web side of the business under a different name. There have typically been two reasons for this; 1. it circumvents the tax issue. 2. if the web business encounters legal troubles et cettera...they can go belly up w/o affecting the core storefront locations...Anyway that's how they do it...not how everyone else does...this make good sense if your host is located in one state...;) ok I think we've veer far enough off course... cheers, mikel Mike Wexler wrote: > Mikel King wrote: > > > > guys I think you are making this a way bigger problem than it really > > is...e-merce crap is generally taxed based on the location of the > > vendor; much the same way in which mail order businesses are taxed. > > You really only have to worry about the state/locality in which you > > are incorperated/operate from, and in many cases this only applies to > > transactions that occur within those bounds. Meaning that both the > > vendor and the customer are in the same state. Really this is a > > matter for the bean counters, but thus far I've yet to buy anything > > even from Amazon that I have to pay tax on unless they are in my > > state. > > Actually it gets complicated for two reasons. On the web site I run > http://www.tias.com/ we have vendors in all 50 states. Second, if you > have a business presence in the state the customer is located in, then > you need to calculate the tax for *their* locality. So in the normal > case where you are calculating the taxes for just 1 vendors. Who has > only one location, then things can be simplified by dealing with only > the rules of the state (and the localities within the state). > > > > > cheers, > > mikel > > > > Mike Wexler wrote: > > > > > Actually its even more complicated than this. There are city taxes > > > and > > > other taxes on other boundaries. In addition the rules as far as > > > what > > > things are taxable vary by locality. For example, some localities > > > charge > > > taxes on shipping and others don't. > > > > > > Brady Orand wrote: > > > > > > > > This is not as easy (conceptually) as it sounds. You have to know > > > the > > > > current state tax plus any county taxes applicable. If you set up > > > a table > > > > with this information, you can cross reference the location of the > > > buyer > > > > with the table, calculate the appropriate taxes, and charge them > > > > accordingly. > > > > > > > > You must also make sure to record the taxes that were paid so they > > > can be > > > > paid to the appropriate tax agency. Not an easy task. > > > > > > > > There are sources out there for all of this information and you > > > can get tax > > > > tables on a CD that can be imported. > > > > > > > > Brady... > > > > > > > > ----Original Message Follows---- > > > > From: Mikel King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > To: LDL Enterprise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > CC: *MySQL mail list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Subject: Re: taxes > > > > Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 16:57:35 -0500 > > > > > > > > Wound't you just set a table with an id, state_abrev, & tax > > > columns. Then > > > > the id column will match the selection...et cettera...capisce > > > > > > > > LDL Enterprise wrote: > > > > > > > > > does anyone know how to calculateg taxes for a shop cart that > > > would set > > > > the > > > > > tax depending on the state that they select when filling out > > > their > > > > contact > > > > > information? 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