Re: More basic question (was: Loading tax tables in MAPICS DB)

The idea of providing a common VATTBLE for the MAPICS community has crossed
my mind from time-to-time. Unfortunately, common maintenance would only work
if MAPICS customers standardized their tax suffix and tax indicator usage.

Standardizing would require one time updates to the Item Master, Customer
Master, Special Charges, and possibly the Vendor Master. Given the size of
this task, I believe that most MAPICS customers would prefer to live with
manual VATTBLE maintenance.

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan Bale" <dbale@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "MAPICS ERP System Discussion" <mapics-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2004 3:45 PM
Subject: RE: More basic question (was: Loading tax tables in MAPICS DB)


> Thanks for the reply, Kevin!
>
> > considering the small amount of time it
> > takes to setup.
>
> Come again?  We are finding this to be an enormous undertaking, subject to
> keying errors and normally nice people getting cranky after keying this
> stuff for a few hours.  Since it's been 16 years since your organization
> originally did this, maybe you've forgotten? <g>
>
> I would tend to agree, once you've got it set up, it shouldn't be that
hard
> to maintain.
>
> How transferable is the tax table data between different organizations?
If
> I found another company that had the tax tables completely entered, would
it
> be just a matter of saving the VATTBL file on their system and restoring
it
> to ours?  If this is true, is anybody offering?  Not to say that they
would,
> but if my company were to offer <<a negotiable dollar amount>>, would
there
> be any takers?
>
> tia,
> db
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: mapics-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx / kdfox@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2004 3:28 PM
> >
> > We've been using the tax tables since 1988.  Originally on DB
> > with OE&I, now on R6 with COM.
> >
> > The various government agencies will send you notice when the tax tables
> > change.  It takes just a few minutes to change them.
> >
> > There are some 3rd party services out there such as Vertax.  But we
found
> > the expense too much considering the small amount of time it
> > takes to setup.
> >
> > Kevin Fox
> > kdfox@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Dan Bale [mailto:dbale@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2004 6:03 AM
> > To: MAPICS ERP System Discussion
> > Subject: More basic question (was: Loading tax tables in MAPICS DB)
> >
> > Due to the underwhelming response to the first post, let me back
> > up a little
> > to ask:
> >
> > Is *ANYONE* using the MAPICS tax table (VATTBL)?
> >
> > Those that are, how do you maintain it?  How do you learn when tax rates
> > change or are added (or deleted; yeah, right!)?
> >
> > tia,
> > db
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: mapics-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx / Dan Bale
> > > Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2004 3:49 PM
> > >
> > > Esteemed listers:
> > >
> > > (NOTE:  This is MAPICS DB!)
> > >
> > > I've got a user keying in the tax tables from a paper list.  For
> > > all states, I believe.  There's gotta be an easier way.
> > >
> > > Someone else asked about this for Texas not long ago.
> > >
> > > Is any of this available to download from somewhere and just
> > > restore to the
> > > MAPICS tax table(s)?  I'm not sure whether we're in a spending mood
for
> > > something like this right now.
> > >
> > > Is it simply a matter of *being able to* copy the tax tables from
> > > one MAPICS system and restoring them to another?
> > >
> > > FWIW, we are migrating to XA6 sometime before the end of the year.
Read
> > > that as, we definitely don't want to spend $ on a DB-only
> > solution when it
> > > will only be used for a few more months.
> > >
> > > Through the archives, I see that Guide Tech. offers a Vertex package
for
> > > MAPICS XA.  Anybody have $ details?
> > >
> > > tia
> > > db
>
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