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Fieldnote Supply Shop: Sales tax return for California

Sales tax return for California for Fieldnote Supply Shop. An eight-line California return for the 2026-08-01 to 2026-08-31 period. Net taxable sales 46.00 USD at 8.750 percent gives 6.12 collected; less 2.10 refunded the net tax due is 4.02, and after a vendor collection allowance of 0.03 the remittance is 3.99 USD. Every line number is the same line the worksheet column carries.

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Specifications

Document Set
tax
Industry
retail
Source Kit
retail-commerce
Entity
Fieldnote Supply Shop
Synthetic
true
As Of
2026-09-08
Jurisdiction
US-CA
Lines
8
Net Tax Due
4.02
Net Remittance
3.99
Renderer
reportlab
Pages
1

Testing contract

Expected to pass
Scenario
Recompute lines 3, 6 and 8 from the lines their descriptions name and compare with the matching row of sales-tax-filing-worksheet.csv.
Expected result
Line 3 is 46.00, line 6 is 4.02 and line 8 is 3.99, each matching the US-CA row of the worksheet exactly. The allowance on line 7 is 0.75 percent of line 6.

What is a .pdf file?

PDF (Portable Document Format) is a page-oriented format that fixes layout, fonts, and vector and raster graphics so a page renders identically anywhere. A `%PDF-` header is followed by numbered objects, a cross-reference table mapping each to a byte offset, and a trailer; edits append incremental updates rather than rewrite the file. Page content is a stream of drawing operators, so a PDF holds no words or paragraphs, only positioned glyph runs. Adobe released it in 1993 and gave it to ISO as ISO 32000-1 in 2008.

How to use this file

Use an example PDF to test text extraction, rendering, metadata parsing, AcroForm handling, and OCR pipelines: checking that extraction reconstructs reading order from glyph positions, that a scanned page yields no text, and that an incremental update leaves earlier revisions in the file.

How to use this file for testing

“Fieldnote Supply Shop: Sales tax return for California” is a deterministic Novus Examples fixture for Data import. Realistic faker-generated datasets with documented schemas for testing import and ETL flows.

Documented properties for this file: 1 pages. Compare results against paired or grouped companions on this page when present (clean↔damaged, searchable↔scanned, or format twins) so scores stay reproducible across runs.

Download the file once, keep the path stable in CI or local scripts, and treat the spec table as the contract: dimensions, seeds, field lists, and roles are intentional. Corrupt or invalid samples are labelled as such, expect parsers to fail loudly rather than silently accept them.

Document fixtures list their internal structure (pages, fields, tracked changes, embedded objects) in the spec table. Test extractors, converters, and OCR against that known structure, and compare searchable↔scanned or format-twin companions when present.

Code examples

import pdfplumber  # pip install pdfplumber

with pdfplumber.open("sales-tax-return-US-CA.pdf") as pdf:
    print(len(pdf.pages), "pages")
    print(pdf.pages[0].extract_text())

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