Sales Tax Agency Fields
The following field information is intended to assist those who design reports for Sage 50 using Crystal Reports.
Filename: TAXAUTH.DAT
The TAXAUTH.DAT file contains default information about the sales tax agencies maintained for your company's sales transactions.
- To add Sage 50 sales tax agenc fields to your Crystal reports, select TAXAUTH.DAT.
Indexes and Their Uses
This file has the following two keys:
0 = By ID
1 = By GUID
Fields
The following table shows the fields available in the TAXAUTH.DAT file and includes the type and size in number of bytes of each field.
| Field Name | Type | Size | Comment | 
|---|---|---|---|
| ID | ZString | 8 | Tax agency ID. | 
| Description | ZString | 30 | Description of the tax agency. | 
| Rate1 | Float | Single sales tax rate. | |
| Rate2 | Float | Tax rate based on a formula. | |
| UsesFormula | Logical | Setting of the Formula option for Sales Tax Agencies. True => Uses a formula to calculate sales tax. False => Does not use a formula to calculate sales tax. | |
| RateChangeAt | Float | Dollar amount entered in the up to box for Sales Tax Agencies. This is the dollar amount of sales over which sales taxes are calculated by formula. | |
| TaxBasis | UBinary | Basis on which taxes are computed. Possible values include 0 = Total taxable sales 1 = per line item | |
| GLAcntNumber | UBinary | Number of the sales tax payable G/L account. | |
| VendorRecordNumber | UBinary | Record number associated with the vendor. | |
| GUID | UBinary | GUID (Globally Unique Identifier) used for linking Sales Tax Agencies table. | |
| LastUpdateCounter | Integer | This increases incrementally when the record is changed. | |
| LastModified | Date | 8 |