I want to track sales tax, but I also want the cost of an item to include sales tax - how?

[Michael DeBusk]

On Fri, October 31, 2008 08:35, jgombos wrote:

> Eg. Suppose I order a scanner.  The scanner itself has a cost, plus
> there's a shipping cost.  So I create a shipping account because
> it's interesting to track what I'm spending on shipping expenses.
> However, it's also quite interesting to know how much I spend on
> office equipment.  The cost of procuring office equipment includes
> the cost of shipping it.

It seems to me that this might be one of the things for which the "memo"
field might be useful.