Over riding the tax amounts on invoices

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

LateNight <webdrop at gmail.com> writes:

> I 'm giving up on the GnuCash invoicing module.  
>
> I am a consultant and often have reimbursable expenses which I flow through
> to my client along with the taxes.  There are three tax issues that
> complicate this and I cannot come up with a work arounds.  One is the fact
> that we have PST which can throw things off of ratio.  PST will soon be gone
> in British Columbia so I guess it will no longer be an issue very soon.

I'm not sure how PST throws anything off...

> The second problem is that often the expenses are a meal or a hotel bill
> where GST is not a consistent proportion of the bill.  On meals, the tip
> throws the GST off and on hotel bills, there is often hotel tax that throws
> the GST off.  I need a way to over ride the GST on the invoice for some
> items and use the tax table for the rest.  Is there an easy way to do this
> that I have missed?

Use multiple line-items for the single charge so you can apply the tax
table to part of it.

> The third issue is that the printed invoices do not indicate which unit
> prices have tax included and those with tax excluded.  It can be quite
> confusing to read if these lines are mixed on one invoice.  I might mix
> these because I charge my time at a rate plus GST and then when I enter
> reimbursable expenses, I might enter the total amount and allow Gnucash to
> calc the GST.  I do this when there is PST because I can then just type the
> total receipt amount and I use a factored tax rate in the tax table to calc
> the proper GST when there is PST.

In the report options turn on the Taxable column.

> Any help appreciated.  It would sure be nice to find solutions and then I
> could track paid and unpaid invoices within the software.  
>
> Right now I'm using Excel to prep invoices so that I can handle the taxes as
> the situation requires.
>
> Perhaps it is my accounting practices that need changing.  Any help
> appreciated.
> Thanks

-derek

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