Tax Rules
A bicycle sold in Madrid carries 21 % VAT. The same bicycle in Las Palmas, on the Canary Islands, carries 7 %, and in Lisbon 23 %. Tax Rules keeps the answer for every country Hii Retail supports: the tax rate for each kind of goods in each tax region, and the date each rate applies from.
Tax Rules is global: one list for every company. A tax rate is set by a country's law, not by the retailer, so every company with stores in a country uses the same rates. Hii Retail therefore keeps them once, Extenda maintains them, and when a country changes a rate, one change reaches every company. What your company decides is which tax region each store is in and which taxable group each item is in.
What it handles
| Area | What Tax Rules does |
|---|---|
| Tax regions | the areas with one set of rates: a country, or part of one such as the Canary Islands. Each store is in one. |
| Taxable groups | the kinds of goods, such as Standard and Reduced. Each item's price is in one. |
| Rates | the percentage for each group in each region, with the date each applies from, old rates kept and new ones announced in advance |
| Exemptions | customers who pay no tax, such as customers from outside the EU |
| Tax-exempt regions | a 0 % twin of every region, for business units that sell without tax |
| Messages | a message for each country whose rules change, to Business Unit Management and Store Data |
| The API | the regions and the rates, for any system that needs them |
If you want to…
| …do this | read |
|---|---|
| understand where the rate on a sale comes from, and what your company sets | How a rate is found |
| open stores in a new country without items that have no rate | The same item in another country |
| understand regions, groups, rates, exemptions and aliases | Tax regions, taxable groups and rates |
| ask for a new country or an announced rate, or know when a change reaches you | How rates change |
| read the rates from your own system | Tax Rules API |
| receive the changes in a Hii Retail service | Messages to other services |
| see the rates of one country | Countries |
Countries
Tax Rules holds these countries. Each page lists its regions, groups and rates.
| Country | Tax regions |
|---|---|
| Andorra | AD |
| Finland | FI |
| Germany | DE |
| Ireland | IE |
| Netherlands | NL |
| Norway | NO |
| Portugal | PT, PT-MA Madeira, PT-AC the Azores |
| Spain | ES, ES-CN the Canary Islands, ES-CE Ceuta, ES-ML Melilla |
| Sweden | SE |
A country that is not on the list has no rates yet. Ask your Extenda contact before the first store opens there. See Asking for a change.