[ic] tax based on zip code?

Greg greg at valuemedia.com
Thu Feb 17 00:50:57 EST 2005


Barry Treahy, Jr. wrote:

> DB wrote:
>
>> In Ohio, sales tax must now be charged at different rates depending 
>> upon the location (zip code) of the customer. Has anyone done such a 
>> thing or am I going to have to get my hands dirty (or pay someone 
>> else to?) I'm running 5.2 with mysql.
>>
> I asked this question just weeks ago and the silence was irritating 
> since someone has to had to have dealt with this already.
>
> For teh data source, one of the least expensive solutions I've found 
> is a product from the 'Sales Tax Clearinghouse' which provides monthly 
> or quarterly updates of the tax tables in a fixed record format.  I've 
> already created a table with the imported values and will be working 
> on a tags that will validate the zip,state,city combinations when a 
> ship-to or account is setup and another to pull the current rates at 
> the time of ordering...  If you're interested in working together on 
> this, contact me off-list...
>
> Barry
>
You can find a start to your project here with the use of levies:

http://www.icdevgroup.org/pipermail/interchange-users/2002-December/030083.html

Greg

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