Methods, software modules and software application for logging transaction-tax-related transactions

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium containing a logging software module for logging transaction-tax related transactions for use in a transaction-tax processing application, wherein each of the transactions to be logged may include a previously calculated transaction-tax amount of the transaction, the software module upon execution causes a computer to:

• use logging rules which define, depending on transaction data, what transactions have to
• be logged and what data items of a transaction have to be logged;
• receive a logging request for a particular transaction;
• evaluate the logging rules with transaction data of the particular transaction,
• select, in response to an outcome of the evaluation which demands that the particular transaction is logged, the data items of the particular transaction which have to be logged;
• log, in response to the outcome of the evaluation which demands that the particular transaction is logged, the selected data items of the particular transaction;
• wherein the rules and their evaluation enable a decision as to whether the particular transaction and which data items are logged to depend on at least one of the type of the particular transaction and a jurisdiction which is relevant for the particular transaction;
• wherein the logging software module can be invoked independently of a software module for the previous calculation of the transaction-tax amount of the particular transaction.

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium containing a logging software module for logging transaction-tax related transactions according to logging rules, wherein the logging software module upon execution causes a computer to:

• receive the logging rules from a logging rule configuration interface that enables the logging rules to be input and configured by a user without a need to change hard-coded programs;
• receive a logging request for a particular transaction;
• evaluate 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,
• select, 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;
• log, in response to the outcome of the evaluation which specifies that the particular transaction is to be logged, the selected data items of the particular transaction;
• wherein the logging software module is invocable independently of a software module for the previous calculation of the transaction-tax amount of the particular transaction.