Preface: If you don't know exactly what you are doing, this is not for you. I am providing this data for people who already know how to deal with manually managing and importing sales tax information. Please do not ask me for instructions on how to do this. Please do not request this data if you have not done this before and know the details. You are responsible for validating this information, I am not responsible for incorrect rates or anything else that might happen if you use this data. Greetings... I have created sales tax codes and schedules for California (using tax rates effective 10/2014) in a MS Access database (2003). The schedules include all counties and cities that have a tax rate beyond the state 7.5%. To deal with cities where there is no additional city and or county taxes, I have also created a zip code cross reference that points to the appropriate schedule. For example, for a city that has an additional tax, in a county that has an additional tax, it points to the tax schedule for that city. But for the zip codes of any city in that county that do not have an additional tax rate, it points to the tax schedule for that county. If neither the county nor the city has any additional tax, it points to the schedule for the state. Yes, I realize that using zip codes is not best practice. That being said, if you use them already and don't care about the potential issues, do not need to handle sales taxes for the entire country, and you do not care to use a service to handle your sales tax calculations, and you can handle VI imports and some other gotchas, then I would be happy to save you some time and send you the mdb file, free of charge, just because it's ridiculous that you can't get this data broken down this way more easily. Other important notes: * You will either need to find a way to link the new schedules to your current schedules so that you have some way to update your customer data, invoice history, and open orders... (so you will also have to know how to do that and willing to accept responsibility for doing that properly) OR you can keep your existing schedules codes and deprecate them by changing the description to "Do not use!" OR you can change the names of the schedules in these tables *If you are keeping your existing schedules or have other schedules for other states you need to keep, you will need to export them first, combine the data, re-initialize the sales tax files and then import the combined tables... because there is a problem in at least some version of MAS that prevents you from just adding new schedules via VI. (There is a thread on here from a couple years ago that I started discussing this) If you would like a copy of the Access file, please email me at mkaney@gmail.com and I will send it to you.
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