tax included w/ discounts

[Derek Atkins]

Andrew Sackville-West <ajswest at mindspring.com> writes:

> This came up on irc today
> (http://lists.gnucash.org/logs/2007/11/2007-11-02.html#T14:23:25)
> where a user was entering a discount for a tax included invoice and
> got unexpected results. The user was expecting the discount amount to
> be tax included as well, 
>
> tax_included_gross - tax_included_discount = tax_included_balance 
>
> but instead got
>
> tax_inc_gross - discount - (discount * tax_rate) = some_other_balance
>
> I think the tax-included thing should apply to all amounts on the
> split line. thoughts? Am I thinking incorrectly here?

The question is whether the discount is applied "pre-tax" or
"post-tax".  Did you change how the discount is applied?  Adjust
the "Discount How" column from "<" (pre tax) to ">" (post tax)
and you should get the result you expect.

> A

-derek

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