invoice tax rounding errors

[Beth Leonard]

On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 12:33:22AM -0700, Brian Dolbec wrote:
> It appears that all the printed/printable invoices have the same
> rounding error in the taxes that can cause the posted total to be
> different than the printed invoice.

It's a known issue:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=300042
https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2005-April/013455.html

It occurs when the invoice and tax make the program round a number
which is exactly halfway between two numbers to round to; some parts
of the program round this up (traditional elementary school rounding),
whereas other parts use a "round to even" protocol, rounding it to
the nearest even digit, i.e. 0.00 from 0.005 and 0.02 from 0.015,
never rounding to 0.01 on an exact match of 0.005.  

A work around if it bothers you is to change your tax rate by a small
fraction such that the tax doesn't come out as exactly even anymore
and rounds to the correct value for that invoice.

--Beth
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