POS built for Minnesota convenience, grocery and liquor stores

No. The 6.875% state rate is the floor everywhere, but the seven metro counties carry a further 1.0% that the state imposes directly, a 0.75% transportation tax and a 0.25% housing tax, so the metro floor is 7.875% before any city or county tax. Elsewhere, a local tax exists only where the jurisdiction has cleared two separate hurdles: specific authorising legislation from the Legislature first, then approval by voters at a general election. City, county and transit taxes commonly run 0.25% to 1.5% on top, and exact combined rates come off the Department of Revenue rate guide for that address. Storeveu sets the state rate once for every Minnesota store and takes a per-store override where the local layer differs.

Candy, soft drinks, dietary supplements, alcohol, prepared food and vending machine sales all stay taxable at the full combined rate. Candy is statutorily defined to exclude anything containing flour or requiring refrigeration, so the flour test decides whether a given confection is taxable, and that has to live on the item rather than on the category. Soft drinks are nonalcoholic beverages with natural or artificial sweeteners, so unsweetened water and drinks whose sweetness comes from milk or a high juice content generally fall back to exempt. Prepared food is broader than the hot case, because food sold with eating utensils provided by the seller counts too. Storeveu keeps a tax rule per department with item level exceptions so the flour test and the sweetener test are encoded once and applied on every sale.

Both selling rates, because Minnesota splits them by ticket type. Preprinted instant-win tickets pay 6% of the ticket price and any other lottery ticket pays 5.5%, so a single commission field would misstate one of them. Cashing is separate again at 1.5% of the amount of each winning ticket paid out, and note that the correct figure is 1.5%, not the 1% some sites publish. Storeveu maps scratch and draw to their own rates and reports cashing as its own stream so the numbers reconcile against the Lottery statement. The end-of-fiscal-year bonus of up to 10% of a year-over-year sales increase is discretionary and allocated by market share, so it is reported apart from commission rather than folded into it.

No. Off-sale wine, spirits and full strength beer are limited to exclusive liquor stores, plus two closed grandfather classes, and in cities of not more than 10,000 population the city may own and run the store itself, which about 180 cities do. Tax also depends on the licence: a 2.5% liquor gross receipts tax applies to retail liquor sales by a store holding an intoxicating liquor, club or wine licence, on top of the 6.875% state rate, giving 9.375% before local taxes. That 2.5% does not apply to 3.2 percent malt liquor, so a store selling only 3.2 beer charges 6.875% plus local and nothing further. Off-sale hours are 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. on Sunday, with no sales on Thanksgiving Day or Christmas Day and none after 8:00 p.m. on Christmas Eve, and a municipality may tighten that further. Storeveu runs the two alcohol classes as separate tax rules keyed to licence type and product strength rather than a single alcohol flag.