Customer list? Now how about tax tables

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Mon Apr 17 15:33:39 EDT 2006


Quoting Brose Nunan <kayakpeople at comcast.net>:

> I set up two tax rates listed in my tax table, thinking I could chose 
> whichever was appropriate for my transaction when invoicing. Upon 
> reviewing my accounts I noticed that rather than applying just one 
> tax rate, gnucash applied all the tax entries from both tax tables as 
> one tax rate, resulting in over 20% sales tax on an item... I 
> unposted the invoices with the problem, deleted the items and 
> re-entered them. The program still assigned the 20+% tax for any item 
> I listed as purchased prior to the date that I changed the tax table. 
> This was the case even after I removed all the old tables and left 
> only one table with an 8% tax rate in the system. There was no other 
> difference than the date of the transaction between the problem 
> invoices and those that were correct. I figured the system had some 
> kind of memory for transaction dates and I just needed to start over. 
> I just was hoping to reduce my workload. I can't change the purchase 
> dates because it would wreak havoc with my Quarterly state tax 
> reporting. Any ideas?

Um, I'd need to see your tax tables to see what it's doing.  Gnucash
applies ALL taxes in a particular tax table, and yes, it combines
all taxes destined for a particular witholding account into a single
Split.

-derek

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