How to balance an account?

[Liz]

On Sat, 16 Mar 2013 21:46:02 -0400
Jean-David Beyer <jeandavid8 at verizon.net> wrote:

> We clearly disagree, but this disagreement does not make much
> difference. As far as I am concerned, the end use tax on the book is
> as much part of the cost of the book as the shipping charge is. I do
> not feel I get any benefit by keeping one separate and the other one
> as part of the cost. So I made them the same.

That is the logical problem.
If you wish to account for it separately so that you can pay your
taxes, you can't call it part of the cost of the book.

There are a couple of ways of achieving a separation of the tax
costs which is associated with 'book costs' within Gnucash.