Posted by jimb2 on August 07, 2019 at 20:52:58 from (174.114.155.238):
In Reply to: New shipping issues posted by Jon f mn on August 07, 2019 at 05:23:02:
About 5 years ago my daughter was writing the program for an online retailer to calculate all the taxes for all the difference states, counties, cities and towns based on buyers zip code. Every month the company had to update the tax tables in the program. So this requirement has been in place for some years now for online retailers but maybe it was not being enforced. The most difficult problem she had was the computer language she was using had no function to do money calculations were fractions of cents were involved. The computer language did not follow the rules of rounding up or down fractions of cents properly and when you did the calculations with an electronic calculator the answer would be different from the computer program. She used to get teased by her coworkers about having an electronic calculator on her desk but she always had to verify that the calculations of her program matched the calculator. These calculations would have been very simple using the COBOL computer language as it had all the proper rules for handling rounding up and down of fractions of cents. Example, take a state that has a 3.7% sales tax , then a county tax of 1.4% and city tax of 1.7% and the purchase was $137.79 then each tax for each level of government had to be calculated separately and stored and then add the taxes to the selling price to give the total selling price in a number in the form of $$$$.cc and the amount had to agree with an electronic calculator. At the end of the month the company had to do an electronic funds transfer of the tax $$ to each state,county, city,
Rather long but just attempting to show the state, county, city and town sales tax has been a requirement for online sales for a few years now and how complicated a computer program has to be to calculate the tax for the different levels of government and transfer the tax payments.
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