Tax-free gifting
AssigneeGoogle Inc.
InventorsDavid P. Conway, Arun Balaraman
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Abstract
A method includes receiving, from a computing device of a first party, a request to purchase a gift for a second party, identifying a location of the second party, determining whether a taxing authority of the second party's location imposes a tax on a purchase associated with redemption of the gift or a tax on the receipt of the gift, determining an amount of the tax imposed, generating a payment request for the gift including adding the amount of the tax to a cost of the gift, and transmitting the payment request to the computing device of the first party in response to the request to purchase the gift so that the first party has an option to pay the tax imposed based on the second party's location.
Claims20
A method performed by one or more processing devices, comprising:
- receiving, from a computing device of a first party, a request to purchase a gift for a second party;
- issuing the gift to the second party;
- receiving information from the second party;
- identifying a location of the second party based on the information received from the second party;
- determining whether a taxing authority of the second party's location imposes at least one of a tax on a purchase associated with redemption of the gift by the second party or a tax on the receipt of the gift by the second party;
- determining an amount of the tax imposed by the taxing authority of the second party's location;
- generating, using instructions stored on a storage device, a payment request for the amount of the tax imposed;
- and
- transmitting the payment request to the computing device of the first party subsequent to identifying the location of the second party based on information received from the second party so that the first party has an option to pay the tax imposed based on the second party's location.
One or more storage devices storing instructions that are executable to perform operations comprising:
- receiving, from a computing device of a first party, a request to purchase a gift for a second party;
- issuing the gift to the second party;
- receiving information from the second party;
- identifying a location of the second party based on information received from the second party;
- determining whether a taxing authority of the second party's location imposes at least one of a tax on a purchase associated with redemption of the gift by the second party or a tax on the receipt of the gift by the second party;
- determining an amount of the tax imposed by the taxing authority of the second party's location;
- generating a payment request for the amount of the tax imposed;
- and
- transmitting the payment request to the computing device of the first party subsequent to identifying the location of the second party based on information received from the second party so that the first party has an option to pay the tax imposed based on the second party's location.
An apparatus comprising:
- memory for storing instructions;
- and
- one or more processing devices for executing the instructions to perform operations comprising:
- receiving, from a computing device of a first party, a request to purchase a gift for a second party;
- issuing the gift to the second party;
- receiving information from the second party;
- identifying a location of the second party based on the information received from the second party;
- determining whether a taxing authority of the second party's location imposes at least one of a tax on a purchase associated with redemption of the gift by the second party or a tax on the receipt of the gift by the second party;
- determining an amount of the tax imposed by the taxing authority of the second party's location;
- generating a payment request for the amount of the tax imposed;
- and
- transmitting the payment request to the computing device of the first party subsequent to identifying the location of the second party based on information received from the second party so that the first party has an option to pay the tax imposed based on the second party's location.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.