Tax implementations in stock management type systems

Is anyone aware of any “standard” or articles/books that cover the best way to implement tax details in stock management type system in a generic and worldwide compatible way?

Alternatively if you have specific suggestions or experience on the subject your input would be appreciated.

(Bonus points for .NET specific advise - although can't imagine the language changes the details much)

To be more specific regarding what I mean by "tax details". What I am asking is how does one build a system that can "reasona开发者_如何学Pythonbly" well deal with the difference in tax laws between countries and states. I understand this is a vague question but I am not sure that it could be expressed better.

My first gut instinct was to just create a tax-rate field and assume that will suffice but now I am starting to wonder.

I would start here: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=international+taxation&x=0&y=0

Your question is pretty vague, and I certainly don't have any technical answers for you. But, I would imagine that you need to create a general rules engine that is pluggable to just about every kind of business transaction and event that occurs in your system.