[ic] Now: Re: Charging sales tax to Billing State

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On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 09:41:47AM -0400, Rick Shank wrote:
> 
> Well, I guess I mixed up what I was asking.  The technically correct way 
> to charge sales tax is the the purchaser, not necessarily the receiver.  
> So, if the billing state is filled in, then sales tax should be calculated 
> to this, if not, then assume that Billing Address == Shipping Address, so 
> calculate based on the Shipping State.
> 
> Any ideas on how to implement this easily?

That is not true in all states.  At least here in maine sales tax goes
according to shipping address.  So if you buy out of state but ship to maine
it is taxable.

easily?

> 
> ~Rick Shank
> 
> -----------
> 
> >i think it charges tax based on the two letter state code,
> >
> >so it would be PA for you, you need to add that under administration and
> >tax..
> >
> >ray
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rick Shank" <rickshank@banklogic.net>
> To: <interchange-users@interchange.redhat.com>
> Sent: Friday, April 12, 2002 11:21 AM
> Subject: [ic] Charging sales tax to billing zip?
> 
> 
> >
> > This is how Pennsylvania works at least....the sales tax gets charged to
> > according to whether the purchaser is in PA or not.
> >
> > How can I get this to work, such that it still allows you to not provide 
> a
> > separate billing address if it's the same as the shipping (how it works
> > out of the box), so in this case it would calculate sales tax based on
> > zip.   However, if you fill in b_zip , it will calculate based on this?
> >
> > Thank you,
> >
> > ~Rick Shank
> >
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