Single customer using multiple tax rates depending on country of ship to and Item shipped

Hi,

We have a scenario where VAT is applicable on sales to single customer but tax rates applicable are different depending upon the ship to location and the item.  The selling company is located in EU..

One option is to setup different customer numbers for different locations and create one customer number as the Parent, then attaching the others created as child to that customer.

Is there any other option.  Please note that each of these customer locations would have different VAT Ids.

Thanks,

SM