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 Author: pcthurman View Messages Posted By pcthurman
 Posted: Apr 22, 2024 11:12
 Subject: Adding sales Tax or other tax on invoices
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 Topic: Suggestions
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pcthurman (1204)

Location:  USA, Virginia
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This should be a no-brainer.

Please add state sales tax or other taxes such as VAT to the invoice.

It is very annoying to see:

Total: US $43.77
Shipping: US $10.80
Insurance: US $0.00
Additional Charges: US $1.00
Credit: US $0.00
Grand Total: US $57.94

$43.77
$10.80
$ 1.00
-------
$55.57

There is clearly a discrepancy between the Grand Total and what is actually showing
for charges. Since taxes are not included in those charges, the discrepancy must
be the taxes.

1) This discrepancy will likely confuse many buyers.
2) Anyone who prints the invoice for business reasons will not have a paper record
of the taxes paid.
3) In case of an audit, having a record of taxes paid on paper is beneficial.

Cass T
 Author: Stellar View Messages Posted By Stellar
 Posted: Apr 22, 2024 11:42
 Subject: Re: Adding sales Tax or other tax on invoices
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 Topic: Suggestions
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Stellar (3491)

Location:  Spain, Comunidad Valenciana
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In Suggestions, pcthurman writes:
  This should be a no-brainer.

Please add state sales tax or other taxes such as VAT to the invoice.

It is very annoying to see:

Total: US $43.77
Shipping: US $10.80
Insurance: US $0.00
Additional Charges: US $1.00
Credit: US $0.00
Grand Total: US $57.94

$43.77
$10.80
$ 1.00
-------
$55.57

There is clearly a discrepancy between the Grand Total and what is actually showing
for charges. Since taxes are not included in those charges, the discrepancy must
be the taxes.

1) This discrepancy will likely confuse many buyers.
2) Anyone who prints the invoice for business reasons will not have a paper record
of the taxes paid.
3) In case of an audit, having a record of taxes paid on paper is beneficial.

Cass T

This is already possible, the seller needs to have the appropiate macrotags on
their invoice template.

Here are mine for example, they work for all TAX, VAT and GST orders.
 
 Author: pcthurman View Messages Posted By pcthurman
 Posted: Apr 22, 2024 13:15
 Subject: Re: Adding sales Tax or other tax on invoices
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pcthurman (1204)

Location:  USA, Virginia
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In Suggestions, Stellar writes:
  In Suggestions, pcthurman writes:
  This should be a no-brainer.

Please add state sales tax or other taxes such as VAT to the invoice.


Cass T

  
This is already possible; the seller needs to have the appropriate macro tags on
their invoice templates.

Here are mine for example, they work for all TAX, VAT and GST orders.


Thank you! I looked back at several pages of messages and found that only 1 of
10 stores actually include the (tax) line on the invoice which begs me to ask...

How come the tax line is not automatically included?

Cass T
 Author: Stellar View Messages Posted By Stellar
 Posted: Apr 23, 2024 03:03
 Subject: Re: Adding sales Tax or other tax on invoices
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Stellar (3491)

Location:  Spain, Comunidad Valenciana
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In Suggestions, pcthurman writes:
  In Suggestions, Stellar writes:
  In Suggestions, pcthurman writes:
  This should be a no-brainer.

Please add state sales tax or other taxes such as VAT to the invoice.


Cass T

  
This is already possible; the seller needs to have the appropriate macro tags on
their invoice templates.

Here are mine for example, they work for all TAX, VAT and GST orders.


Thank you! I looked back at several pages of messages and found that only 1 of
10 stores actually include the (tax) line on the invoice which begs me to ask...

How come the tax line is not automatically included?

Cass T

As the invoice are custom templates they need to be updated or reset manually,
they have specifications from each seller so if the admins reset them all that
would be lost and become a mess for all.

They could inject the code instead but I don't think the bricklink system
is so capable...
 Author: peregrinator View Messages Posted By peregrinator
 Posted: Apr 23, 2024 09:09
 Subject: Re: Adding sales Tax or other tax on invoices
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Location:  USA, New Jersey
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In Suggestions, pcthurman writes:
  Thank you! I looked back at several pages of messages and found that only 1 of
10 stores actually include the (tax) line on the invoice which begs me to ask...

How come the tax line is not automatically included?

Because the manual invoicing system uses custom templates and pre-dates the collection
of sales tax, VAT, etc. by BrickLink.