expenses & taxes

[Maf. King]

On Sunday 05 Feb 2006 18:52, jethro (sent by Nabble.com) wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> I'm new to GnuCash. The fact that there is something like this in the
> opensource world is really nice!
>
> I have a small problem when using the program: I want to record an expense
> (eg I purchased something for my company). This means that I have an
> invoice with an amount on it. This amount is divided in 2 parts: (1) the
> actual costs (2) the taxes. I want to record the purchase so I made a new
> vendor and added the invoice. Now it doesn't automatically makes it so that
> the taxes part of the amount is going to the taxes account. Can anybody
> help me with that?
>
> Thank you very much in advance.
>
> Best regards,
> Jethro Borsje

Hi,

You need to set up the tax tables - see Business |Tax Tables.
Then the vendor|new bill dialogs will take the relevant rate of tax 
automatically.

I'm sure this is covered in the manual, but I'm not sure where,

HTH,
Maf.