This may depend on the jurisdiction, but I believe there's precedence for "anything bad that happens during/as a result of the commission of a crime is the responsibility of the person committing the crime."
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned this. Printed manuals are out of date before they are off the printer. It's much easier to update a PDF online and just provide links to the always up to date PDF.
Great! Where's the repository so we can download your code?
Contrary to popular belief on this site, most business code is closed source. However, I am a solid middle of the pack developer and if I can do it just from the Avatax API docs, I'm sure you can too.
But more realistically, 3 person company can safely ignore any other states tax authority. The worst that will happen is a harshly worded letter, which can be ignored. Just make sure it's incorporated, or owners are liable to get a surprise when on vacation.
That is an easy technology fix. Sorry. A simple table with Zipcode and Taxrate.
You add the tax to your final total. Then pay the states the tax.
This is wrong. Well, not all wrong, but the only correct part of this is that it is an easy technology fix. That technology is an API call to a tax calculation service (there are many of these).
Zipcode/Taxrate table is woefully oversimplified to the problem at hand. Zip codes cross county/city lines frequently, which each have their own general sales tax rates. Additionally, there are tax rates by product classification. Prepared food will be taxed differently than unprepared, a diamond ring will be taxed as a luxury good, there are tax holidays where anything classified a "school supply" has no sales tax, but only for a certain day, or set of days.
Do not write your own sales tax calculations. There are services available to calculate it for free, and pay options for services that will file taxes for you.
The problem here is if you are a three employee retailer with a small online presence, states and counties and cities have their own taxes, and you have to determine the applicable rate for every combination. Also, what happens when you order from international shippers, who don't hold dollars or have accounts with the state?
This is a solved problem. I wrote an integration with Avatax (one of many competitors in this field), in about 4 hours, fully tested.
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This may depend on the jurisdiction, but I believe there's precedence for "anything bad that happens during/as a result of the commission of a crime is the responsibility of the person committing the crime."
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned this. Printed manuals are out of date before they are off the printer. It's much easier to update a PDF online and just provide links to the always up to date PDF.
Great! Where's the repository so we can download your code?
Contrary to popular belief on this site, most business code is closed source. However, I am a solid middle of the pack developer and if I can do it just from the Avatax API docs, I'm sure you can too.
But more realistically, 3 person company can safely ignore any other states tax authority. The worst that will happen is a harshly worded letter, which can be ignored. Just make sure it's incorporated, or owners are liable to get a surprise when on vacation.
This is false. Do this at your own risk.
That is an easy technology fix. Sorry. A simple table with Zipcode and Taxrate. You add the tax to your final total. Then pay the states the tax.
This is wrong. Well, not all wrong, but the only correct part of this is that it is an easy technology fix. That technology is an API call to a tax calculation service (there are many of these).
Zipcode/Taxrate table is woefully oversimplified to the problem at hand. Zip codes cross county/city lines frequently, which each have their own general sales tax rates. Additionally, there are tax rates by product classification. Prepared food will be taxed differently than unprepared, a diamond ring will be taxed as a luxury good, there are tax holidays where anything classified a "school supply" has no sales tax, but only for a certain day, or set of days. Do not write your own sales tax calculations. There are services available to calculate it for free, and pay options for services that will file taxes for you.
The problem here is if you are a three employee retailer with a small online presence, states and counties and cities have their own taxes, and you have to determine the applicable rate for every combination. Also, what happens when you order from international shippers, who don't hold dollars or have accounts with the state?
This is a solved problem. I wrote an integration with Avatax (one of many competitors in this field), in about 4 hours, fully tested.
Apparently you've never been in Arizona in late July/August.
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