Tracking multiple sales taxes

[Derek Atkins]

The only way to do what you want is to have two Tax subaccounts
of each real expense.  So you would change your tree to look like:

Expenses
  Renovation
     Contractors
         TVA 19.6
         TVA 5.5
     Materials
         TVA 19.6
         TVA 5.5
     ...

This allows you to easily see how much you spent on each type of
expenditure.  But then you can't easily add up all the
taxes to see how much tax you spent.  However it's easier to do
the addition "out of band" than it would be to recompute the
split transactions.

What you really want are "views" or "categories" or "tags", but Gnucash
doesn't support that.

-derek

Quoting Ian Haycox <ian.haycox at gmail.com>:

> I'm using GNUCash to record my expenses for a house renovation and 
> would like to
> keep track of the sales tax spent for each of the renovation items. In
> France there are
> two different rates of sales tax (TVA), 19.6% and 5.5%  Recording
> sales tax has an effect
> on the capital gains due at resale.
>
> My account structure looks like:
>
> Expenses
>    Renovation
>        TVA 19.6
>        TVA 5.5
>        Contractors
>        Materials
>        Tools and equipment
>        Garden
>        Consumables
>            ....
>
> I then record a transaction by withdrawing from my checking account
> and splitting the deposit
> between an appropriate TVA expense account and the actual expense 
> (e.g. Garden).
>
> The problem is I cannot see how much I have spent on, for example, the
> garden because
> the account only shows the amount less tax and there may be  entries
> for the different
> tax rates, so I can't just multiple the amount by 19.6%. Each txn may
> have different
> TVA amounts for the same expense account.
>
> Is there a way to report the totals including tax for each expense or
> change the account
> structure so I can see the total spent on each expense item.
>
> Thanks.
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