sales tax & more

peter kraan p.kraan@xtra.co.nz
Fri, 7 Jun 2002 17:23:07 +1200


So the tax only applies to invoiced items, not purchases?  For a sales ta=
x=20
feature to be useful it needs to apply to purchase too, so you can claim =
tax=20
paid out against tax collected.

Peter

On Fri, 07 Jun 2002 04:00, Derek Atkins wrote:
> This is already there in current-cvs.  For every item in an invoice
> you can enter the amount of tax (by percent or by value) and the 'tax
> account' to which that tax should be applied.  Granted, this only
> allows you to record one type of tax, so it wont work with multi-tax
> environments, but it should suit your needs to maintain the amount of
> sales-tax withholdings.
>
> -derek
>
> Kevin Benton <KevinB@webex.com> writes:
> > On the business side of things, it would be nice to have GNUCash be a=
ble
> > to compute the sales tax for us as well.  Why?  When I sell something=
, I
> > have to take out sales tax for my city, local transit authority, coun=
ty ,
> > and state, of which I have to be file separately (one for the city, o=
ne
> > for the rest) at the end of each quarter.  I also need to be able to
> > compute income taxes off the gross numbers as well.  It would be much
> > easier if there was a way in GNUCash to have it calculate those value=
s
> > for my quarterly filings for me and stuff the money into sub accounts=
 so
> > I don't accidentally spend my tax dollars before EOQ.
> >
> > BTW - When I was at my local office supply store, I saw that QuickBoo=
ks
> > has a cash register function now.  Is anyone planning anything simila=
r
> > for GNUCash at this point?
> >
> > Kevin Benton
> >
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ls
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: peter kraan [mailto:p.kraan@xtra.co.nz]
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 7:11 PM
> > To: gnucash-user@lists.gnucash.org
> > Subject: sales tax
> >
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Is it possible in Gnucash to extract a sales tax amount from each
> > transaction?
> > I now you could create a split but i'm after a more automated way to =
take
> > off
> > a standard 12.5% off each amount as its entered.
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Peter Kraan.
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Peter Kraan
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