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[Raphaël Valyi <rvalyi@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

We are currently leading the Brazilian localization of OpenERP and we were
missing a few things that are very important. Basically the Brazilian
fiscality is rather complex: for instance a product may have 3 different
kind of VAT all together and depending the state where you sale the product,
one of those VAT ratio will switch between two values or more (and this is
actually a lot more complex than that).

So we needed two things:

1) the need to easily generate for each product all those different
sale/purchase taxes (letting the user enter every product tax manually was
not an option and we would miss the fiscal classification in fiscal reports)

2) the need to easily filter the taxes that will actually apply to your
specific sale/purchase. Actually every product get a lot of different base
taxes (like 5/6 sale taxes, but half get nullified by the fiscal position
applied. Is that a valid approach (we can just let the fiscal position
switch a tax, because it's there are per product switch while the fiscal
position is per order).


For 1) de developed a simple module
called account_product_fiscal_classification
Please read the details and screenshots here:
http://docs.google.com/View?id=ajb639cjf9fb_15c8gxjqcq

For 2) we rely on the fiscal position feature of course, but we created a
rule engine selecting the appropriate fiscal position depending on the user
company and partner fields. But I'll talk about that one again later when it
will be more polished.

So I would like to know your feedback
about account_product_fiscal_classification
Do you find it useful in your country? Do you have change suggestions? Does
it make sense, as we thought to release it a generic module in trunk extra
addons rather than just part of the Brazilian localization? For instance, in
France where fiscality is simpler (yes I know that's tough to hear), I think
installing this module is also an easy way to make sure product taxes are
not forgotten by the people entering products and it can even help
generating the few VAT taxes.
So what do you think?


Thank you for your feedback/suggestions.

Raphaël Valyi
http://www.akretion.com