Features
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.
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 abbreviations, 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.