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First Job Trading Accounting System Convert GST to VAT

This was my first software job i had to do for Info System (pvt) Ltd. And i was a fresh starter to handle a system. I really didn't have faith in me that i could do the job. But my first Boss Mr. Thayaparan (CEO of Info sys & ewave) Gave me the job and explained i had to do. What he said was our government is changing the Tax GST to VAT and change Job Trading Accounting System to handle VAT as well. When i went trough the code i saw every thing was hard coded to GST 12.5 when calculating tax. it was used on many modules with hard coded values. I think this is not the way the tax should be Handled. what i thought was to make a tax master and save value to the database and get that value and calculate the tax amount. in the future developer or customer will be able to change it when ever the government change the tax. And my deadline was one week to finish it. My Solution for the Tax Issue. Tax master with the bellow fields (Tax Code , Tax Name , Tax Personage) Tax Module configu