identifying sales tax

[Andrew Sackville-West]

you could simply run a profit & loss or income statement and use the 
options, select only the tax accounts (and probably their corresponding 
parent account, but uncheck the "show all sub-accounts" box) then it 
should show a total.

I have some mis-givings about this idea though. It creates a massive 
amount of extra accounts just for tracking the sales tax. I think you're 
better off doing the double entry idea:

(quoting my self here)

 >3, or this wacky one. create both an income and an expense account 
 >called "Sales tax". then enter your transaction like this (assuming a 
 >check)
 >        credit        debit
 >Groceries    108.25
 >checking            108.25
 >sales tax in    8.25
 >sales tax out            8.25
 >
 >that way you record 108.25 for groceries expense and 8.25 for sales 
tax >expense, but you offset with the income expense.

that way you've only got a couple extra accounts. seems simpler to me.

.02 units of local currency.

A

bri wrote:
> Andrew Sackville-West <andrew <at> farwestbilliards.com> writes:
> 
> 
> 
>>2. you could put a "tax" sub-account under every account then you could 
>>report with or without the tax as youlike.
> 
> 
> OK, this to me looks like the most 'reasonable' - keeps the exepense totals
> correct, tho the bad thing is that each transaction shows up as split, so you
> have to click on it to see what the expense category is. But that's something I
> think I can live with.
> 
> But.. whats the best way to get an end of year report of all of these
> Expense:whatever:Sales Tax categories? The only way so far that I can see to get
> a total on expenses is with the pie chart? I don't see that any of the other
> reports that show expenses show a total dollar figure? Or is there one that I'm
> missing? Guess I need to go thru and learn how to make my own reports.. I know -
> and when I get it done, I'll see if anyone else wants it. :-)
> 
> .bri.
> 
> 
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