A system for capturing information from a postal inidcia producing device so as to produce a report covering the payment of value added taxes and fees

摘要

An electronic postage meter (50), a personal computer (51) and a virtual meter (52) are coupled to a modem (53) and an optical character recognition scanner (65) scans and captures data on a mail-piece (11), which is then routed to a normal postal process (66). A computer (57) stores the unique postal mail-piece numbers and decides whether or not value added tax (VAT) has been paid, or has been paid and should not have been, for the corresponding mail-pieces by applying postal rules and rates database (58) to information stored in databases (60,61) and generating a report about VAT paid or not on the mail-piece.