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[Maf. King]

On Thursday 14 Jun 2007, you wrote:
> Quoting "Maf. King" <maf at chilwell.net>:
> > On Thursday 14 Jun 2007, Derek Atkins wrote:
> >> No, there's no way to enter a negative payment.  The way to do this
> >> (usually) is a line-item on a new invoice.
> >>
> >> -derek
> >
> > Or, what I have done in the past, is to unpost the original invoice and
> > add a new line to reflect the "credited" sum.  (And add a note to remind
> > me about it!)
> >
> > As long as the final invoice balance is >= 0, it seems to work.
> > IANAA
>
> Or another option is to unpost the payment and re-post it with a
> reduced amount.
>

But wouldn't there then have to also have a "second" payment to something like 
income:refund_given to stop the invoice showing in the aging reports, and 
remember to deal with the tax implications later on

Or could one just add a split to the original payment (and still remember for 
tax)?

Maf.