Re: Taxable Freight?

We are on BPCS 405CD and have the same problem.      The work around we
came up with was to use an item class 'FT' for special charges.      The FT
-- Freight charge special line can be taxible.     I think that same rule
is in the following states.

'CT'                       Connecticut
'MS'                       Mississippi
'NY'                       New York
'NC'                       N. Carolina
'PA'                       Pennsylvania
'TX'                       Texas
'SD'                       S. Dakota
'WA'                       Washington
'CO'                       Colorado





                                                                                
                 
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v6.1.00 AS/400 CS - Basically Vanilla

One of our largest customers (a multi-national supermarket chain) recently
started remitting amounts in excess of the amounts we were invoicing them.
When asked why their payment amounts did not match our invoice amounts, the
customer replied that it was because we were not charging them tax on
freight to certain states (WA is one).  This was news to me - I had never
heard of freight being taxed in the US.  They are now complaining that our
invoices are not correct and they want us to include taxes on freight so
they can just pay invoice amounts (w/out calculating the amount and
remitting more than the invoice amount).

We currently do not use OLM and just use the freight bucket on the order
header to charge freight.  We've used special charge lines for freight in
the past (and these could have a tax code in them to result in freight
amounts being taxed), but this is less desirable.  The standard invoice
shows freight after the subtotal if it is placed in the header (what this
same cutomer says they want), but it shows before the subtotal like regular
product lines if placed on as a special charge line (not wanted).  Also,
adjusting the $ amount on a line item (amount is not known until time of
shipment) in invoice release is a pain since the line could be # 100 (page
down . . . page down . . . page down . . .) so a header freight amount is
easier in this respect as well.

We're trying to avoid OLM (not even sure it handles this) a mod to the
invoice program or other BPCS programs and have this requirement handled
"automatically" in BPCS (if it is a requirement).  Has anyone else had to
deal with this "tax requirement"?  SSA Helpline hadn't heard of this as a
requirement or had other clients asking about how to handle it.

If you have to deal with this, how are you handling it in BPCS?


Thanks,

Devin






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