Sales tax

[dhs13]

What is every one doing about sales tax collection?

and what about sales to exemption organizations?

In Ohio, there are about 1800 differnent zip codes that have different tax rates.

Thanks

[web9000]

dont know about ohio, but in california you only charge sales tax if the product is shipped within the state, and you use the tax for the county or tax district that you are in, not where the customer is, so you should only need one sales tax record?

hope this helps

[dhs13]

Lucky you. We have to use destinition of the product.

[harley13]

Same in Colorado.

From the Revenue Dpt.:

"The state imposes a sales and use tax of 2.9 percent. Many cities and counties impose their own local sales/use tax on purchases and transactions within their boundaries. The Colorado Department of Revenue, in addition to collecting state sales and use tax, collects sales tax on behalf of more than 175 cities and counties. These jurisdictions are referred to as "state collected." All Colorado counties that impose sales tax are state collected."

dhs13, pls let me know if you solved this issue.

Thx!!!

[dhs13]

In Ohio, current law requires if the origanization has a "presence" in Ohio, they have to corrrect sales tax. This tax is collected on the destination of the product. There are over 1800 possilble tax rate comination based on zip codes. the base rate is 5%. The max rate is 7%. I can charge 7% and remit all to the state of oh. Normally remittance is to local tax authorities. I can't get an quote to modify Squirrelcart to do this changes. As of 1/1/2004, tax law changes. Also I have to consider the effects of tax exemption on the tax collections.

What will happen in the future? Who knows.

[Jamie]

If I understand you correctly, it sounds like you can charge 7% for all items shipping to Chicago. The cart can handle this. We will be working on improving the tax setup to make it more rule based like the shipping, so you can specify lots of scenarios. It will be sometime before we get there. We are very swamped at the moment.

Thanks,
Jamie

[dhs13]

Actually, Ohio tax only applies to Ohio residence and Ohio businesses. If the business has a place in Ohio, store, building
and the product ships to an Ohio residence, I can charge either the local rate(1800 +) or an flat 7%. (7% is the highest rate in Ohio). The are 2 types of tax license ( retail and destination) Retail is local stores that have retail location like Compusa. Ours is destination ie we don't have retail location. We have to charge on the destination of out products within the state of Ohio.