Integration Guide

Appendix D POS Interface File Descriptions Tax Table File
WaveWorks PSS, Integration Guide, 1.10 Page 177
© 2000, Symbol Technologies, Inc. February 1, 2000
D.4 Tax Table File
Filename File directory path specified in PSS System Settings. The file name defaults
to NXGTAXTxx.DAT, where ‘xx’ is a two digit number identifying which
taxt table on the POS it represents
Source: POS system
Description
Type ASCII Sequential
Record Length Variable
Number of Records Variable.
This file is not in standard fixed length record format. It is a variable record length file with comma-
delimited fields. Up to ten separate tax tables can be defined using the file names NXGTAXT01-10.
Each Tax Table File contains the deltas for the tax brackets and amounts that are required to compute tax.
The file is sequential with three different record formats.
Tax Table Record 1
Field Name Type Length Description
ASC 1 “ (0x22)
DESCRIPTOR ASC 18 Tax Table descriptor.
ASC 1 “ (0x22)
ASC 1 , (0x2C)
TAXRATE ASC 1-4 Start of repeat range for table (0-99.99).
ASC 1 , (0x2C)
FIRSTTAX ASC 1 True implies tax is collected on first range. False implies tax
is not collected on first range.
True = any non zero value, False = 0.
ASC 2 CRLF (0x0D0A)
Tax Table Record 2
Field Name Type Length Description
NUMRANGES ASC 1-2 Number of ranges in the tax table.
ASC 2 CRLF (0x0D0A)
Tax Table Record 3
Field Name Type Length Description
RANGEDELTA ASC 1-2 Delta amount for high end of bracket for this range.
ASC 1 , (0x2C)
AMTDELTA ASC 1-2 Delta amount for tax amount for this range.
ASC 2 CRLF (0x0D0A)