Re: Proposal: support for taxes in PriceSpecification

I will look into your various proposals as far as they touch the e-commerce model in schema.org.
In the past, we considered extending the tax modeling in GoodRelations, but we postponed that, mainly for two reasons:

1. GoodRelations focusses on the discovery phase of business transactions. In that phase, a detailed modeling of taxes and fees is less important. Also, the VAT property was not really used a lot.

2. Very often, the applicable tax is not a fixed property for a single offer, but depends on the country (or in the US even the state) of delivery, so you end up with with a ternary relation between a price specification, a country, and tax details. In some cases, even the legal status of the buyer will have influence (for instance, in B2B scenarios in Europe, there is no VAT, while in B2C scenarios, the VAT of the country of origin applies).

3. The applicable taxes follow certain (often complicated rules); materializing those at the level of each single price information seems problematic.

I will propose a generic property-value pattern to schema.org asap; maybe we can use that to provide a pattern for tax information.


Martin
 
On Jan 26, 2014, at 11:00 AM, Kévin Dunglas wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> A great addition to http://schema.org/PriceSpecification would be
> taxes. There already is a valueAddedTaxIncluded property but:
> * This property is not sufficient to compute the amount of the VAT.
> The VAT rate varies by country. It can even be different in the same
> country depending of the product or service's type.
> * It tells nothing about other taxes that apply such as ecotax. For
> instance, the french law requires displaying the ecotax amount to
> customers.
> 
> Moreover, most i18n/l10n enabled e-commerce platforms (including
> Magento and Prestashop) provide a Tax data model.
> 
> 
> I propose to add the following property to
> http://schema.org/PriceSpecification:
> 
> Property              | Expected Type             | Description
> ------------------------- | ---------------------------------- |
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> applyingTax         | ApplyingTax                 | One or more tax
> applying to this price (included in the price property)
> 
> And the following types:
> 
> http://schema.org/ApplyingTax
> 
> Property | Expected Type  | Description
> ------------ | ----------------------- |
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> tax         | Tax                  | The type of tax
> amount   | Number or Text | The amount of the tax
> 
> 
> http://schema.org/Tax
> 
> Instances of Tax:
> * http://schema.org/ValueAddedTax
> * http://schema.org/Ecotax
> 
> Let me know if it sounds interesting. In such case I'll make a formal
> RDFa proposal.
> -- 
> Kévin Dunglas
> 
> http://dunglas.fr
> 
> 

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