Illinois, I think, charges sales tax on food, unless it has wheat as an ingredient. So a TWIX bar, which has wheat in it, is tax-free, but a MARS BAR is taxed.
Some states charge sales tax on certain types of clothing depending on their price...tennis-shoes are tax-free unless it's an expensive pair, for example.
Some states consider goods (items) taxable, but services (labor) is not, while other states tax services and goods.
Most states have a state rate, county rate, and city rate, but in California there are also tax districts that can overlay city and county boundaries, charging an additional tax.
Its a crazy quilt patchwork of laws and processes. The folks who provide the tax rate service earn their income!
Stephen Russell wrote:
Taxes get DEEP as I remember. State, County, City/Parish, etc.
Now do you pay a trifle to check them for every transaction or do you build a log to keep all these value pairs with a date? Yeah a .001 cent fee per sale I'd get the rate for each sale. Now if it was 1.00 USD I'd think twice about the log.
On Thu, Jun 21, 2018 at 5:36 PM Mike mike@ggisoft.com wrote:
Interesting...
I just got an email from one of the companies I had spoken with a year or so ago.
FWIW, TaxCloud.com https://taxcloud.com/ is the company's website.
As you can imagine, they are swamped with contacts looking for solutions today. Their website is pretty sluggish.
Mike Copeland
Richard Kaye wrote:
Thanks, Mike. That was my assumption, as well. As you say, trying to
keep up with tax regulations in 50 states (well, 45) is what makes a service like this worth paying for. And I have no problems paying for something where value is received. After all, I charge my clients for my services. Having said that, nobody wants to be gouged...
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-----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com On Behalf Of Mike Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2018 3:46 PM To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: Re: Fun with US sales tax
There are several, and the common scheme is to charge you a rate for each access via the API. Usually something in the tenths of a cent range.
So if you need a rate for a quote, you pay. If you need a rate for a sale, you pay. If you just need to check a rate for confirmation, you pay.
Or, you can wade into the swamp of 50 different tax schemes full of incredible complexity. For fun, read up on California's sales tax. Oye.
Sorry, but I don't have any recommendation for which company to use for tax compliance as I've avoided the problem so far.
Mike C
Richard Kaye wrote:
Our wondrous Supreme Court has opened the Pandora’s Sales Tax box with
today’s decision to allow states to require retailers with no physical presence in a particular state to collect sales tax for that state. Leaving aside any thoughts on the wisdom of this decision, which I have not looked at, I’d like to call on the collective wisdom of those who deal with invoicing to find out if any of you are using some sort of service provider/API to retrieve tax rates, presumably by submitting the address of the buyer to some kind of web API.
For our non-US ProFox friends, you can just sit back and laugh. 😊
TIA
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