[ic] Re: Re: Negative Tax - bug?

[Mike Heins]

Quoting Carl Bailey (carl at carlbailey.net):
> Quoting Mike Heins:
> >Quoting Dan Bergan (danb at berganconsulting.com):
> >>>
> >>>That is simply wrong. The user is over-paying taxes.
> >>
> >>in Ohio, that may not be the case:
> >>http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:sJHJL5Jp2KEJ:tax.ohio.gov/ 
> >>divisions/legal/documents/ 
> >>02ST_Opinion020004_TMZ.pdfl&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=6&gl=us
> >>(google cache of a tax commissioner judgment pdf...)
> >>
> >
> >A bunch of baloney, in my opinion, and it is the opinion of one tax
> >commissioner. The "obtained by buying your product" is ridiculous, and
> >I strongly doubt that any court would find in support -- the  
> >consideration
> >is not fungible.
> >
> >I am not surprised you had to get it from a cache, as it should have
> >been deleted. 8-)
> >
> >A discount is a discount; if the proprietor chooses to give a discount
> >specifically on a taxable item as the promotion, they certainly may.
> >
> >That all being said, it certainly illustrates why tax calculation
> >is so difficult.
> 
> Difficult indeed.
> But taxability for an entire-cart discount transaction might not need  
> to be so.  How about his pseudo-code ...
> 
> if ($entire_cart_discount) {
>   $tax += $entire_cart_discount * ( $taxable_merchandise_value /  
> $all_merchandise_value);
> }
> 
> The above assumes discount is negative, and totals are positive for a  
> "normal" sale, but I think this would work even for refunds assuming  
> the signs of the totals and discounts change accordingly.
> 

Nope. You have to do that yourself. There is no way that this is 
the one right way, and things that have a chance of being a very standard
treatment are the only kind of thing that we will provide by default.

-- 
Mike Heins
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