SALES TRANSACTIONS DEVICES

Brand	Owner	Address	Description
VIRTUAL TERMINAL	Hypercom, Inc.	2851 West Kathleen Road Phoenix AZ 85023	sales transactions devices, namely, point of sale terminals, cash registers, vending machines, and personal computers linked to a host computer which houses a substantial portion of the processing hardware and software used by the transaction devices;TERMINAL;
	Where the owner name is not linked, that owner no longer owns the brand

Technical Examples

This disclosure relates to a program controlled apparatus, system and method for identifying taxable financial transactions, collecting data based on the transactions and calculating any sales and/or use taxes due on the transactions. The apparatus comprises a first database having a directory of parameters identifying all domestic government authorities by zip code, geocode, and by jurisdiction name requiring payment of taxes. A second database is provided having a directory of parameters identifying the taxability of goods and/or services for each jurisdiction identified by zip code, geocode, and jurisdiction name in the first database. Also, a third database has a directory of parameters identifying all domestic sales, use and rental tax rates for each zip code, geocode and jurisdiction name. Finally, a server is utilized with programming for determining all taxes due on each transaction request input to the apparatus according to the directory parameters maintained by the first, second and third databases.