tax included w/ discounts

[Andrew Sackville-West]

On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 09:49:49AM -0500, Derek Atkins wrote:
> 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.

hmm.... that's interesting. I'll investigate that some more, and
soudns like exactly the bit missing from that conversation. Thanks

A
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