Sunil Kirah G Gulati

US Patent:

20050278233, Dec 15, 2005

Filed:

Mar 14, 2005

Appl. No.:

11/081069

Inventors:

Wolfgang Bross - Schoenaich, DE
Norbert Heumueller - Herrenberg, DE
Fritz Oesterle - Nagold, DE
Sunil Gulati - Pleasanton CA, US

International Classification:

G06F017/60

US Classification:

705031000

Abstract:

A method of making a data representation of transaction-tax-related information of a transaction in a database or a data file which can be processed by a computer. The transaction is represented by a transaction document having one or more transaction-document lines. The transaction-tax-related information associated with a transaction-document line has one or more taxation levels. The method includes arranging data items representing the transaction-tax-related information in the database or data file according to a data schema for representing transaction-tax information for different jurisdictions, including jurisdictions with different kinds and numbers of taxation levels. The data schema provides a taxation-line entity for each transaction-document line. It also provides a taxation-line-item entity, related to the taxation-line entity, for each taxation level of a transaction-document line. An attribute of the taxation-line-item entity is used to indicate the kind of taxation level represented by the taxation-line-item entity.