Derived Tax Exempt Rates (USA)
Tax-exempt rates should allow for derived from taxed rates. The current functionality requires US properties to maintain 2 Base Rates -- 1 taxed and 1 tax-exempt. The taxes are irrelevant to the base rate pricing, and a are function of the guest type (church, government, non-profit), OTA pays tax, or 30+ day stay. There is no reason they should be managed separately from other rates.
Aaron Jones
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NaN
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I agree with other comments here. Tax exemption is a common need for my hotel and we need a simple way to exempt specific reservations from taxes. Please work on this to improve the user experience.
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LP
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This is an important feature for us and a basic use case we shouldn't need a hack for. Any news on when a more seamless process will be deployed?
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LP
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Very important for us to be able to toggle taxes off when we have guests with this use case. It's a basic functionality for hotels.
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Sebastien Long
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I completely agree that the tax rules are not fit for purpose. Creating and maintaining a multitude of products is not practical.
Our prior PMS had the ability to make a stay as tax exempt, as well as individual folio items. We could also configure channels which collected some or all of the local hotel occupancy taxes, such that taxes were not created on those stays (or only the relevant taxes that we need to collect and pay ourselves).
Honestly the whole tax set-up is a mess, leading to us having to run different environments.
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Alex Price
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I offer a plausible, simple solution in my post https://community.mews.com/how-do-i-2/tax-exempt-reservations-removal-of-vat-without-duplicating-your-product-library-1606?tid=1606&postid=7557#post7557
Much of the functionality already exists within MEWS programming. This would save our team hours of manual involvement and mistakes every month.