> I will, I will.
>
> Cheers,
> Tim
>
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> Tim Ruppert
> HotWax Media
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> David E. Jones wrote:
>>
>> On Aug 5, 2006, at 11:15 AM, Jacques Le Roux wrote:
>>
>>> From: "Tim Ruppert" <
[hidden email]>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Jacques, that's a great piece of information that I had definitely
>>>> overlooked. That seems to me to be a VERY big problem though as
>>>> you
>>>> want to be able to charge taxes to anyone that orders anything -
>>>> not
>>>> just people who want their information stored, correct?
>>>
>>> As long as taxes are defined by the GEO where the resident lives.
>>> If you have no information about that point how may you charge
>>> taxes ?
>>>
>>> For example if I work on a contract in France I will have to
>>> apply taxes for my services in the invoice. But if I work on a
>>> contract
>>> outside France no taxes are applied.
>>>
>>> Shipping is not the way because the buyer is not necessarily the
>>> one who receive the item. But as long as they pay I think that you
>>> are able to know where they reside, not sure how to do that in
>>> each cases though...
>>
>> Most jurisdictions around the world require taxes based on the
>> shipping address, or on the billing address if a shipping address
>> is not available or applicable (ie digital purchases and such if
>> they are taxable).
>>
>> In other words, I think this would really be more of a bug than
>> something that inherently can't be implemented.
>>
>> It sounds like OFBiz is not doing tax calculation for the
>> "anonymous" checkout properly and that needs to be fixed.
>>
>> Tim: could you throw an issue into Jira for this? Hopefully it
>> will be a minor issue to fix and something just isn't tied in
>> correctly.
>>
>> -David