Posting invoices and bills

[Mike Evans]

On Sat, 29 Sep 2012 04:50:41 -0700 (PDT)
denisbkk <denis at dcore.asia> wrote:

> I am trying to use GnuCash for a small business. I was entering some
> of the company data including some bills and invoices. Now I have 2
> things I cannot figure out that have to do to what accounts GnuCash
> posts the invoices and bills:
> 
> *Case 1: *
> When I enter an invoice and the items on there have a VAT tax added,
> all is calculated cirrectly, then when I post the invoice, the
> complete amount is posted to my Income:Sales account. Is there anyway
> to control the way GnuCash posts the invoice amounts? I used to have
> an accounting software that would posts the invoice amount (without
> the VAT tax) to the Income:Sales account and the VAT amount to the
> VAT Payable liability account. Is this possible to achieve?
> 
> *Case 2:*
> When entering a bill from a vendor, again with items that each have a
> VAT tax added to them, then when I post the bill what happens is
> this: The bill amount (minus the VAT) is added to the expense account
> I chose correctly...but the VAT amount of the bill is added to the
> Sales:Income account automtatically which at least in my eyes doesn't
> make any sense. So my question is do I have something setup
> incorrectly or how can I control where GnuCash posts to for invoices
> and bills?
> 
> I hope anybody can help me with this. Many thanks.
> 
> 
> 
This sounds like you haven't set up your tax tables correctly.  
This may help.

http://gnucash.wikia.com/wiki/Create_Tax_table_for_VAT

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