Tax Authority Information Provisioning
All the tax codes automatically provisioned by the SuiteTax Engine have information regarding the Imposing Tax Authority and the Reporting Tax Authority. You can also provide this information for your created tax codes.
Imposing tax authority is the tax authority that imposes tax. Reporting tax authority is the tax authority tax is reported to. This tax authority collects tax.
In the Tax Authority section, there are the following fields that provide information about these tax authorities:
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Imposing Tax Authority Name and Reporting Tax Authority Name – name of the tax authority, for example, "City of North Mankato" or "Alabama Department of Revenue".
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Imposing Tax Authority Level and Reporting Tax Authority Level – hierarchical order of the tax authority. You can see there one of the following tax authority levels: "Federal/County", "State", "County", "City", "Local", "Reporting Agency".