Re: Towards ship-to-based sales-tax support

[Ed W <..hidden..>]

Chris Travers wrote:
> Hi all;
>
> I a know a lot of members of our community either have to deal with 
> SSTI-based sales tax rules now or are going to next year (among other 
> states, Washington is moving to that system).  I am trying to scope 
> out the requirements for supporting tax calculations based on the 
> destination of the shipment, and I am trying to find the best way of 
> handling this.  Do people think that tracking tax rates per zip code 
> is the way to go?  Per city/state combination?

Please dont forget the far simpler case in the EU.

Roughly speaking if we ship into an EU country we charge VAT, if we ship 
outside then we don't...

There is one additional fly in that ointment which is that if they are 
an EU customer, but are a business which is VAT registered and we have 
the VAT number on file, then in that case we don't charge VAT, BUT we do 
have to make a note of all such sales and submit them at the end of the 
quarter (presumably there is a big jiggle goes on between all member 
states as they divvy up the net balance...)

Ed W