Tax
IMPORTANT The SOAP API entered a limited enhancement phase in Q4 2020. Access to version 1.6 will be deactivated.
The Tax entity describes the tax rate charged to a customer for specific goods or services purchased in a specified geographic area. The goods and services are represented by a TaxCategory. The geographic area is represented by the a TaxRegion. There can be multiple TaxCategories per TaxRegion. Tax entities
NOTE Any change made to the Tax entity will impact all items that are billed after the change is made.
Entity details
You can also retrieve this information with the Web Services API call The getEntityInfo() SOAP API call.
Entity Name: | Tax |
Can Create: | |
Can Update: | |
Can Query: | |
Can Delete: | |
Can Have UDFs: |
Conditions and requirements
- Only one tax rate can be compounded per TaxRegion and TaxCategory combination.
Field definitions
The following table describes the standard Autotask field objects for this entity.
- To retrieve more detailed information specific to a particular Autotask implementation, use the Web Services API call The getFieldInfo() SOAP API call.
- For information on entity UDFs, use getUDFInfo().
- For String datatypes, the number in parentheses ( ) indicates the maximum number of characters allowed.
- LT indicates Local Term.
For more information about fields marked as picklists, review our Understanding picklists article.
Field Name | Label | Datatype | Read Only | Is Required | Reference Name | Picklist |
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id | Tax ID | integer | ||||
IsCompounded | Compounded | boolean | ||||
TaxCategoryID | Tax Category ID | integer | TaxCategory | |||
TaxName | Tax Name | string (100) | ||||
TaxRate | Tax Rate | double | ||||
TaxRegionID | Tax Region ID | integer | TaxRegion |