Oracle E-Business Tax does not come with any tax codes or rates, just like in previous versions.
You must have a connection between a geographic jurisdiction and a tax jurisdiction. This is needed so that the global repository has the capability to work with any specific geographic hierarchy needed for tax calculation in a central place. In previous releases service providers such as Vertex and Taxware provided tax rates and related location based tax information.
Service providers provide these geographic hierarchies for the U.S. and also supply the rates for each of the levels with periodic updates. They also provide tax content for other countries.
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You should consider working with a service provider to procure the current geographic hierarchies and rates for each level if you choose to use one of the process flows for tax calculation and regular updates.
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