Re: Trading Partner Logical Identification based on EDIFACT or X12qualifiers

[rholmes <rholmes@mac.com>]

In Australia, every company that trades has to have an ABN (Australian
Business Number - I think) when they register with the Taxation office.
Each company also has an Australian Company Number (ACN), but these seem to
have been replaced by the ABN since the GST came in only 1.5 months ago.

The ABN is by nature unique as the Australian Tax Office need to have
records of all business that trade within Australia.

That brings up another question, what about cross border transactions - are
there any international numbers assigned anywhere to companies, or should
the companies involved in the transactions have a number set up?  I guess
this is where registration with some body has it's pluses.

Regards
Ron Holmes
IT Manager
Inovax Limited,
Perth, Western Australia

> From: "William J. Kammerer" <wkammerer@foresightcorp.com>
> Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 23:13:11 -0400
> To: "ebXML Transport (E-mail)" <ebXML-Transport@lists.ebxml.org>
> Subject: Re: Trading Partner Logical Identification based on EDIFACT or X12
> qualifiers
> 
> David Burdett wrote "I *think* the proposal [to identify senders and
> receivers by any one of the available EDIFACT or X12 qualifiers] would
> *require* every organization to register themselves within an
> ISO/X12/EDIFACT registry before they could use TRP messaging."
> 
> Then David RR Webber intoned "No, no!  Exactly NOT.  How did we arrive
> at this conclusion? Where is William when I need him anyway??
> 
> Dear David RR Webber:
> 
> Now you want me.  That feels good.
> 
> Dear David Burdett:
> 
> Practically every company, in the U.S. at least, is marked at birth with
> the sign of the Beast. Whether it's desired or not.  We all have DUNS
> Numbers - your company, Commerce One (835471095), mine (782501225), or
> Ralph's bTrade (802712091).  Even a little dipshit outfit like the
> Drummond Group has a DUNS (830820767).  The only one which was not
> readily discernible was that for David RR Webber's XML Global; in this
> case there's a fallback - the U.S. Federal EIN (XML Global's is
> 841434313).
> 
> Both the DUNS and the FEIN are unique, indelible marks that follow the
> company its entire life.  Don't worry about needing one of these suckers
> for transacting ebXML;  first, you'd have to get one before you ever got
> a bank loan, opened a checking account, filed for an IPO or hired your
> first employee.
> 
> William J. Kammerer
> FORESIGHT Corp.
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