[ic] Charging Sales tax to Billing Address, not Delivery address

Ed LaFrance interchange-users@icdevgroup.org
Tue Oct 8 12:33:01 2002


At 08:35 AM 10/08/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>I totally agree.  What I'm saying was mixed up in my request.
>
>Say we're from Pennsylvania (PA), and only have locations here.
>
>If someone from PA orders an item (thus the billing address is from PA),
>but sends it as a gift to someone in FL (delivery/shipping address), this
>should be taxed, at least here in PA.    But, the default Interchange
>behavior only goes off of the shipping/delivery address.
>
>~rick shank

If that is really the case, then this would just be a matter of setting up 
sales tax a bit differently than what you get in the foundation demo. 
Specifically, configuring the SalesTax directive to consider b_state, and 
creating a salestax.asc table:

http://www.icdevgroup.org/cgi-bin/ic/docfly.html?mv_arg=icconfig05.67

- Ed L.



>On Sat, 5 Oct 2002, Joshua Lavin wrote:
>
> > on 10/4/02 2:37 PM, Rick Shank at rickshank@banklogic.net wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Should the default behavior be to tax based on the Billing Address, not
> > > the shipping/delivery address?
> > >
> > > ~rick shank
> >
> > This is probably something you need to check with your state about. Here in
> > Texas, we only charge tax on a location if we have a presence there. I 
> would
> > guess that in this situation, the tax would be charged based on the billing
> > address, as they're the one who bought it. (They could just as well ship it
> > to themselves and then give it to someone as a gift.)
> >
> > Josh
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