The Nutritional Facts group of attributes is used to communicate product information relating to ingredients, allergens, additives, nutrients and serving sizes. The values needed for many of these attributes may be dictated by local or regional regulations. It is recommended to refer to local/regional market regulations when developing this information and to your local MO for best practices.

9.2.1 Tax Type Codes

This is a local code list. Some of the local market code lists are posted to the GS1 web site [https://www.gs1.org/standards/gdsn/3-x]. For others, please contact your local Member Organisation.

This section provides an overview of the primary tax and pricing attributes used within the Global Data Model.

Requirements for providing tax information are generally driven by target market regulations. Local regulation may require additional tax information beyond the two attributes covered in this guideline, which would be provided via additional local attributes.

The price-related attributes convey pricing information used by the buyer for both communication to consumers and for guiding business process decisions.