eCommerce Tycoon

**NewBreed** · 12-08-2009, 03:15 PM

How are you e-commerce businesses keeping track of tax in each state/zip code? So far I've came up with the option of a lot of reading, a lot of programming, and a lot of time that we're not making any money. Certainly there has to be a quicker way and cost effective? Can someone point me to a some type of literature that explains this in detail?

If it's of any relevance the shopping cart I am using is Magento.
Thanks,
Johnny

**DaGoTTi** · 01-24-2010, 04:06 AM

oscommerce comes with a tax tracking module. i used that before. also the other way i did it was extracted all my orders into excel, then i was able to sort by a column, which i did by zip code, or city or state...whole process took about 10 minutes and i knew my answer

**colbyt** · 01-24-2010, 01:10 PM

Interstate commerce shipments do not require the collection of sales tax unless you have a business location within that state so you should not be collecting tax on those sales.

I think those tax hungry liberal up in New York state passed or tried to pass some law requiring collection but I haven't heard any more about it.