Calculating Your Tax - Royal Alpha5000ML Instruction Manual

Calculating Your Tax

Alpha5000ML owner's manual
Note
If you make an error when you are entering the price ranges, press clear
and start over.
To program table tax rates for the United States
PRG  TAX SETTING
1 Switch the control lock to PRG.
2 If you are prompted for a Manager Password, type the password number and then
press the enter key. If you did not program a Manager Password, go to the next
step.
3 Press the Arrow Down key to select TAX SETTING. Press the enter key.
4 Press the Arrow Down key to select the tax you want to change. Press the
enter key.
6 Press the Arrow Down key to select Type. Press the enter key.
7 Press the Arrow Down key to select Tax-Table. Press the enter key.
8 Do the following:
Press the Arrow Down key to select Range. Press enter key
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Enter the price ranges. Press enter key
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Press the Arrow Down key to select Tax. Press enter key
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Enter the amount of tax for the range. Press enter key
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At the start of the regular repeating breakpoint, after you enter the first value
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of the first regular breakpoint, Press the Arrow Down key to select Add.
Press enter key
Continue entering price ranges and the amount of tax for each range until you
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completely enter an entire sequence of repeating regular break points. Press
the Arrow Down key to select Add. Press enter key, the ECR will pop-up
the message.
9 Repeat for each tax you want to set.
This section provides instructions for figuring your own tax code if your specific
state uses a tax table. Take the time to follow the Example Tax Chart on page
57.Familiarize yourself with the method of determining the tax code.
Then, using the worksheet on page58, duplicate the method of calculating your state
tax code by the steps described in this section. To do this you need to get a copy of
your state's Retail Tax Chart from your local Tax Office. After you are done, write
down the tax code and save the information for future reference.
Every tax table consists of tax brackets. Each consecutive tax bracket is assigned a
tax which is exactly one cent higher than that assigned to the previous tax bracket.
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