Now how about tax tables

[Nancy Brose]

Derek Atkins wrote:

Um, I'd need to see your tax tables to see what it's doing.

Sorry I can't do that I deleted them both and set up a whole new tax 
table.  Thats why I couldn't believe that the new invoice still used the 
old, deleted tax tables when calculating the tax for items billed on 
dates prior to the deletion.  Before I deleted them I had two tax 
tables, both with only one entry, one was for merchandise and the other 
was for service, the difference between percent tax was minimal so...  
Now I only have one table.  From what I could tell the two tax tables 
were both being applied when I only chose one of them.  Either that or 
something else was happening to double the tax when it was applied.  I 
don't know if that is enough information for you.

Gnucash applies ALL taxes in a particular tax table,

Yes, that I knew when setting up the tables, thats why I thought it 
would be OK to have more than one table to choose from.

and yes, it combines all taxes destined for a particular witholding 
account into a single
Split.

Hmm, I don't understand what that means.  Splits still confuse me.

Nancy






> 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?
>
>  
>
> -derek
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