7 Úno
2024
7 Úno
'24
23:27
On Fri, 2024-01-26 at 11:40 +0200, Dr Paulos Nyirenda wrote:
Happy new year, hope you are well.
Happy new year as well.
Due to the current and developing tough economic situation in Malawi,
we at .mw ccTLD are considering ways to provide better conditions for
registrars that operate or are based in Malawi.
One possible way to do this is to charge them for EPP operations at a
different
rate as they provide and manage domains locally to those in Malawi.
We are aware that FRED does not provide a differential pricing
scheme,
however, FRED does provide VAT charges that can be different from one
registrar to another, some registrars can be configured to be charged
VAT but others can be on no-vat.
When we looked at this we also noticed that there is a parameter call
"koef" in the database. This seems to affect how credit is allocated
to a registrar but it does not appear to be linear.
While it sound like interesting idea I'm afraid it will not work. VAT
flag is indeed used to only implement VAT reduction for local
registrars since they will get VAT back from government. This not the
case for foreign registrars where full amount is added to the credit.
If I'm not mistaken koef was only used as the alternative way how to
calculate VAT in some cases.
Even though I understand the idea to set negative VAT and use it
actually to add more credit for local registrars on top of what they
actually pay, this is not the way how it was designed and I cannot
guarantee it will work and it is possible there will be some hidden
traps.
The only think I can suggest is for you to try it, but we don't provide
any guarantee.
So, we would like to find out the following:
1. If we wanted a group of registrars to be charged say 10% less for
an EPP transaction, how
can we use the VAT setting in FRED to achieve that ?
You could in theory reverse VAT flags and say to foreign registrars
that you will only use reduced amount as a credit and so they need to
pay more, but I don't know if this is something it can be explained to
them.
2. How is koef used in the FRED system - is there a
formula ?
Essentially VAT percentage = koef * (1-koef). I guess it was used
because we had koef in the law and not VAT percentage and there are
some small differences related to rounding of fractions where the
result was different when using koef and not percentage. But maybe my
memory is failing.
3. Can we use koef in a positive way to benefit some registrar only ?
4. What happens if we set a negative value for koef ?
5. Can we set a negative value for VAT ?
I respond to this at the beginning, I cannot confirm it will work.
Regards,
Jaromir
Please provide any additional details as we are also exploring SQL
ways to achieve differential pricing or crediting of groups of
registrars.
Regards,
Paulos
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Dr Paulos B Nyirenda
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