I'm writting a time tracking software, which will enable people to record time spent on a given task and then generate a sales invoice based on the billable hours. I'm aware that there's a different sales %tax rate% for each US state, but I wonder how this should apperas on a sales invoice My questions
- If I'm a Californian based company which issue a sales invoice to a Massachussets based company, should the sales tax be calculated for the invoice? If sales tax should appears which rate should I put on the sales line (The MA or CA rate?)
lines: (The quantity are hours of work, and the description are services)
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Qty Description Unit Price Amount Amount inc Tax
8 Programming 100 800 ??? 1 Support Call 100 100 ??? 1 Design Spec 100 100 ??? ___________________________________________________________ TOTAL 1000 2.a: Should I add the tax rate on each line to work out the Amount Inc TAX per sales invoice line or should I only add it to the $1000 TOTAL? 2.b: Could you take my example and calculate the tax on this simple invoice?- Does any other kind of tax should appears on a sales invoice ? governmental? federal? provincial (for Canada)?? Well I just hope calculating sales tax for North America (USA & Canada) is not a too complex process Thank you in advance for your help
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