Re: Dev - Mods to the TaxAuth services to display party's taxes in prices instead of product store's one

Posted by Jacopo Cappellato on Apr 26, 2006; 11:04am
URL: http://ofbiz.116.s1.nabble.com/Dev-Mods-to-the-TaxAuth-services-to-display-party-s-taxes-in-prices-instead-of-product-store-s-one-tp167724p167726.html

David,

thanks for the interesting information: I'll think a bit more about all
this stuff and I'll comment on them later on.

Jacopo

David E Jones wrote:

> Jacopo,
>
> I haven't reviewed your patches in detail, so this is mostly just a response to your comments...
>
> The changes for #1 should be good. Solving NPE problems is pretty much always a good thing.
>
> For #2 this brings up a difficult question that the current design avoids asking by just supporting the concept that different locales would have different ProductStores, even if those different ProductStores were used to sell the same Products.
>
> The hard question is when to charge a VAT tax. The rules for charging VAT taxes are often different from a sales tax, so the VAT to charge my not have anything to do with where the customer is having the order billed or shipped to, but rather where it is coming from. I think this varies in different jurisdictions according to their local tax policy. This was another the reason for putting it on the ProductStore, that tax would generally just be charged for the location of the business behind the store, or of the fulfillment center or what not.
>
> Even without considering what is in that last paragraph, and perhaps some sort of flag on each TaxAuthority record to specify how tax should be handled, and it is necessary to collect a VAT tax based on the customer's billing or shipping address, another things that should go into your list of things to check is if the "Company" selling the good (ie the one specified on the ProductStore) has a "nexus" or sufficient presence in that Geo to have a need to collect taxes there (this is already considered for other parts of the tax functionality, so using it here would just make it more consistent.
>
> -David
>

 
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