Automate VAT expense account

[Fred Bone]

On 13 December 2016 at 9:45, Jacco Ermers said:

> Hi everyone,
> 
> I keep track of my business expenses via Gnucash. Now a lot of time 
> there are similar expenses that I book so it tries to autofill them (ie
> Drycleaning).
> 
> These expenses are split and I always need to correct the VAT amount as
> well:
> 
> Drycleaning:
> 
> Expense:                 13.22
> VAT:                         2.78
> Business Account:                 16.00
> 
> Is there a way to make this easier (without creating a supplier with
> invoices etc)? I would prefer to just put in Drycleaning €16.00 and let
> gnucash figure out the VAT and expense.

I use an SX for this sort of messy irregular txn. Create it with 
Frequency:Once; then when you need it, find it in the SX Editor, update 
the date to today, save, then do a Since Last Run to process it. Fill in 
the variable(s) and GnuCash does the rest.