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Rather you than me, Tony! I've noticed that most of the big accounting
packages seem to be 'geographically limited'. A lot of the US packages that
I see referred to here in the newsgroup are completely unheard of on this
side of the Atlantic. Others are more 'international', but there are
localised versions produced either by a local branch of the original
developer or a partner. Even if you could come up with a truly international
accounting application, how long would it remain so? As you indicated in
your original post, it would have to be updated every time there was a
government budget anywhere in the world!

The only practical way that I can see is to allow users (or rather,
administrators) to change the tax details as necessary. I'm thinking along
the lines of a lookup table of taxes, including a description and a rate,
that could be updated by an administrator. You'd also need some kind of
table of allowances. Of course in this very simplistic example, a lot of
decisions would have to be made by the user, such as which taxes apply to a
particular transaction. As soon as you start writing in rules to control
those decisions, the app starts to become less internationally flexible.

I certainly don't have any kind of definitive answer on this. I'm just
suggesting that there's a balance to be struck somewhere between two
extremes, with international flexibility at one end of the spectrum and ease
of use and control over input at the other.

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Brendan Reynolds
brenreyn@indigo.ie

Tony Toews wrote in message <370d8467.77710341@news.telusplanet.net>...
>Fred Rudolph <ACCOUNTECH@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
>
>>I would suggest the client first consult a CPA firm with expertise in
>>this area, as your client may not be affected by US sales taxes as much
>>as they may think.
>
>Actually I'm just finishing up one product which may be downloaded by
>folks from anywhere in the world and am going to start another
>shortly.   And I think some folks in this newsgroup will enjoy that
>new product.  <mysterious smile>
>
>So I want to design the products so they're somewhat comprehensive for
>anyone to use so I don't get an annoyed email from someone somewhere
>and quickly have to throw in some more levels of sales taxes.
>
>IOW I'm the client.  <smile>
>
>Tony
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