Sales and Use Tax Basic 3.5.0

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The StrikeIron Tax Data Systems Sales and Use Tax Web Services provide a programmatic interface to live sales and use tax data provided by Tax Data Systems.

Simply supply a U.S. ZIP or Canadian postal code and it will be instantly matched to the general sales and use tax and shipping rate levels for the state, county, and city. The tax data is then delivered live via an XML–based Web service directly into any application, platform, product, or Web site.

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StrikeIron offers two Web services to meet your needs:

1. The Sales and Use Tax Complete Web Service provides all the features of the Basic Web Service, plus more than six additional tax levels, support for non–unique ZIP codes (useful when you have multiple items per ZIP code), support for MTA, SPD and much more.

2. The Sales and Use Tax Basic Web Service provides sales and use tax rates at the state, county, and city level for over 19,000 U.S. and Canadian tax jurisdictions.

Features
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Features

The following chart shows the feature differences between StrikeIron Sales and Use Tax Complete and Basic Web Services. Click her for more information on StrikeIron Sales and Use Tax Complete Web Service .

Feature	Sales and Use Tax Data Complete	Sales and Use Tax Data Basic
ZIP or postal code lookup finds general sales and use tax rate information for 19,000 U.S. and Canadian tax jurisdictions.	X	X
Tax rates are updated on a monthly basis to provide the most current information available.	X	X
ZIP and postal codes are updated on a monthly basis using the United States Postal Service ZIP code database and Canada Post to ensure data accuracy.	X	X
Provides information on whether shipping and handling are taxable in a given jurisdiction.	X	X
Includes more than six levels of sales and use tax data including state, county, city, Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA), Special Purpose District (SPD), other1, other2, other3 and other4. Also includes the total sales tax amount and the total use tax amount.	X
Provides state abreviations, county names, city names and reporting codes (including county, city, MTA, SPD and other1-4)	X
Non-unique ZIP codes allow multiple items per ZIP code.	X
Three levels of tax data are provided (state, county, and city), as well as a total sales tax rate and a total use tax rate.		X

Benefits

Increases employee productivity by eliminating or reducing time to look up tax rates.
Eliminates the need to manage a large tax rate database and keep it updated.
Reduces your likelihood of tax calculation errors.
Reduces customer service problems.
Makes it easy to integrate accurate sales tax rates into Web sites, enterprise portals, corporate intranets and extranets, software applications, wireless and PDA applications, and other interactive services.
Integrates via an XML-based Web services interface to any product or platform.
Provides a complete XML-based Web services API.
Contains a sample application and code examples for ease of integration.
Saves money by offering multiple subscription levels that fit your company needs.

StrikeIron has multiple pricing plans available to meet your business needs. For more information or to request a quote, please contact StrikeIron Sales at or 919-467-4545 ext. 2.

Questions about licensing or pricing? Contact sales@strikeiron.com or call +1.866.562.3920

Sample Code

C# Sample Code for Sales and Use Tax Basic 3.5.0
GetTaxRateUS operation

Additional Documentation

Web Service Documentation
Describes how to use this service and also includes example input/output data

Operations

GetTaxRateCanada

Get tax rate of a province in Canada

GetTaxRateUS

Get tax rate of a zipcode in US

GetRemainingHits

Get remaining hits for the license key

Data Provider

StrikeIron

Business Need

Business Process

Partner Solution