Automatically split transactions with sales tax or VAT (Value added tax ) when a transaction is booked to an sales or value-added-tax related account

[Oliver König]

On Tuesday 14 November 2006 20:23, you wrote:
> Nigel Titley <nigel at titley.com> writes:
> >> Gnucash already has a feature to automatically calculated sales or VAT
> >> tax per customer. But that feature does not help if you have anonymous
> >> customers (e.g. super market customers) or if you have a lot of
> >> customers (more than can be managed in Gnucash).
> >>
> >> What do you think? Who else would like to have this feature?
> >
> > I would love this feature. I use gnucash to do the finances for my (VAT
> > registered) ecommerce company. At the moment we are seeing relatively
> > small numbers of sales and I can just about keep up by entering the
> > splits manually. If sales doubled then I'd have real problems (mind you,
> > it would a problem I'd love to have). For credit account customers I
> > handle them using the business accounting features and it works well. It
> > is the website/credit card customers that have the potential to
> > overwhelm.
>
> The business features (including Tax Tables) are outside the
> scope of the register.  I've been working on adding the hooks
> to get callbacks when transactions are entered, but right now
> that's still a ways off.
>
> I don't expect that I will ever, personally, implement this feature,
> so if you really want it I'd recommend finding a developer that
> wants to do it.
Who do yo suggest? Who could be interested in adding the feature? Who can we 
contact?

If you want to I can ask more businesses and tax accountants what they think 
about this feature.
>
> > Nigel
>
> -derek

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