Patent ID: 8620777

Claim:
A computer-based method for logging transaction-tax-related transactions, wherein each of the transactions to be logged may include a previously calculated transaction-tax amount of the transaction, the method comprising: receiving a logging request for a particular one of the transaction-tax-related transactions; evaluating the logging rules with transaction data of the particular transaction, wherein the logging rules define which transactions have to be logged and which data items of each transaction have to be logged based on at least one of a type of each transaction and a jurisdiction that is relevant for each transaction; selecting, in response to an outcome of the evaluation which specifies that the particular transaction is to be logged, the data items of the particular transaction which have to be logged; and logging, in response to the outcome of the evaluation which specifies that the transaction is to be logged, the selected data items of the particular transaction; wherein the method is carried out by a software module executed by a computer, where the software module is invocable independently of a software module for the previous calculation of the transaction-tax amount of the particular transaction.