I have seen the term "Corp-to-corp" used in various contracting ads. I am guessing that this means that I have a corporation and it, as an enitity, is billing the client instead of me as an individual and the corp then pays me. Is that correct? What are the ramifications of this versus (a) contracting through another firm (W2) or (b...
We create point of sale software for the mac, and are looking to revamp our tax engine. It's pretty simple now, with taxes consisting of a name, code and rate that can be applied to every product individually. While this is good enough for some people, we've had lots of requests to handle more advanced situations. Some examples are US Ci...
I just received an initial job offer for a contract position as a PHP developer. I have never had a contract position before, so I don't know what the implications of this are, and how it differs from a salaried position with benefits. =/ What are some things that I should be aware of before accepting the contract position? (i.e. taxes,...
I've been trying to understand how IRS e-file works. Does anyone know if it's a public API, and if so, where I can get information on it? Google has not been helpful. ...
I am creating a pricing program. I need to calculate the amounts according to the current tax list in the US (in various places). I want to have a button 'Update taxes' in the administrative settings of the application, so when the user clicks it, it should download from somewhere the active tax amounts. So I actually want to have a fu...
Hi there, I am designing a shopping cart for my company, and I have a dilemma: in a physical shop, sales taxes are calculated based on local ( state/province and city ) rates. online, Amazon calculates taxes based on amazon site you are connected to ( amazon.com applies US rates and amazon.ca applies Canadian rates). in other hand, Appl...
I just wrote a little game for droid. I was thinking I would put some put some adds in it and release it for free and maybe I'd make a buck or two. I'm wondering what I need to do before I sign up for this. First, I live in Canada. I assume there might be some sort of problem getting paid from the US? I do not have a company. Can I ...
I've got a bit of a doozy here. Hopefully someone can point me in the right direction. I'm using both Peter Mosier's instructions on how to set up Canadian taxes, and the Canada Taxes Order Total Module. I'm building a store which sells both books and DVD's, this is causing a real problem when it comes to properly calculating the taxes...
Is there a ways to check inside a browser (e.g. javascript) if the user is running inside a Remote Desktop session? If the user is running their browser inside a Remote Desktop (i.e. Terminal Services), i want to disable animations on the web-site. If this were a native application, as opposed to a web-site, i could perform this che...