Re: Tax account creation: how to 'detect' tax accounts?

[Chris Travers <..hidden..>]

>
> At the moment, our customers actually pay via another system
> (Drupal/Ubercart) which already does the right thing for taxes -- it
> does a call to a web service run by the State of Washington which
> returns the appropriate location code and rate.
>
> Basically what I need from LedgerSMB is a blank line item I can populate
> with this data, that is clearly a "tax" line, exported for reporting. If
> I can export the tax report detail to ODS, I can then slice it up per
> location code to file the taxes.

That's a very good stopgap measure.  Specifically what info would be
stored?  How can we make it generic?

Best Wishes,
Chris Travers