New York State Sales Tax-Best Practices?

[mlvbs]

Go to admin, modules, order total. Click on Tax, then hit remove. Then just install it again.

Also, make sure NY by itself is deleted.

[ReeFlippee]

Thanks so much! I didn't have NY deleted! Maybe that's what was causing me problems.

Hopefully that'll take care of it!

[chris32882]

Maybe, if all NYS Zenners were to visit that page and give feedback requesting an API, they might begin to understand that it is important... You'd think they would want to encourage New York-based businesses.

I have actually just did this, hopefully it will lead somewhere

[artcoder]

I can not find a good table that list NY Sales Tax by county or city. Is there a good tax table I can use to configure NY Sales tax? Thanks.

[gjh42]

You can get the info from the filing form:
http://www.tax.state.ny.us/pdf/curre...01_fill_in.pdf

[artcoder]

I can not find a good table that list NY Sales Tax by county or city. Is there a good tax table I can use to configure NY Sales tax? Thanks.

I finally found these to be also useful...

http://ny.rand.org/stats/govtfin/salestax.html
http://www.brainyzip.com/state/zip_newyork.html

(there are over 2000 zipcodes in new york)

[elliot25]

I think having a customer select a specific county instead of just selecting a state is too cumbersome and annoying.

The solution I came up for handling NY county specific taxes, is thus:
1. Set up a county table, tax rate for each county; if a county had specific tax rates per town, then an entry would have county and a town name; easily manageable table
2. Used an API to validate address and return correct County (validates county according to full address, not just zip); the API I found was Qualified Address (www.qualifiedaddress.com). Very reasonably priced, had to use the LiveAddress Web Service API for county lookup.
3. Integrated the API into the edit/add new address screens; when county was returned, if NY address, matched it to my county table and charged correct tax.

Voila! Easy, and more importantly ACCURATE!! Plus don't have to bother customers with humongous State selection lists.

[wittyusername]

1. Set up a county table, tax rate for each county; if a county had specific tax rates per town, then an entry would have county and a town name; easily manageable table

how did you do this?

2. Used an API to validate address and return correct County (validates county according to full address, not just zip); the API I found was Qualified Address (www.qualifiedaddress.com). Very reasonably priced, had to use the LiveAddress Web Service API for county lookup.

I have qualified address "live address" installed and working, but don't know how to associated the returned address with the NY zones.

3. Integrated the API into the edit/add new address screens; when county was returned, if NY address, matched it to my county table and charged correct tax.

Again, where is the "county table" you created?

Correct me if i'm wrong but
1. i created zones like this: NY - Cayuga County
Ny - Cayuga County - Auburn City... etc..

2.i created 12 Tax rates for the 12 different tax rates in NY

3. i created 12 zone definitions and associated the appropriate zones to them. (does it matter what the "Zone Name" is?)

thanks.

[wittyusername]

also,
1. right now all my 12 zone names for New York are "NY"
2. my zone descriptions are "NY 7%" "NY 7.75%" etc...

does that matter?

I found
How do I configure the taxes? (US state sales tax - single rate)

but it doesn't talk about multiple tax rates.