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

Hi Dan,

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