Glad you asked Doctor.  I would imagine he would not "just add the sales 
tax to the customer" because it won't always work.  You see sales tax is 
based upon ship to address, but SQL-Ledger only maintains tax 
information at the bill to level.  So anyone who normally gets taxed, 
and who drop ships out of state gets erroneously taxed by the system.  
The reverse happens too - an out of state customer purchases something 
in state and is therefore subject to tax; however, SQL-Ledger won't tax 
him.  The only way to rectify the situation is to create multiple 
customers for each tax scenario - that, though, makes statementing a 
total mess.

SQL-Ledger's tax logic has been my biggest pet peeve since we started 
using the application.  It needs a total overhaul!  LedgerSMB team, if 
you're listening fix it!


Dunc

Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote:
> I am wondering, why one would not, perhaps, add the Sales Tax to the
> customer and then all runs automagically? Or rather for new data...
>
> el
>
> on 9/25/06 11:43 PM Jeff Kaminsky said the following:
>
>   
>> My goal is to write a report that shows the SHIP TO of each invoice so
>> that I can properly calculate sales tax to our state (and hopefully a lot
>> faster than manaully looking up each invoice and adding its location to a
>> giganourmous spreadsheet of infinte headaches.
>>     
>
>
>
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