split bills with taxable and nontaxable items

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

On Fri, January 24, 2014 7:45 am, dgaude wrote:
> Hallo there,
>
> I'm happily using GNUCASH but I've come to one slight issue.
>
> I need to post a bill that includes one item that is not taxable (bc it's
> already some obscure tax) and another item that is taxable normally. How
> can
> I account for that? Ideally, I would 'split' the bill, like for expenses,
> and select one of the items as taxable and the other one as nontaxable,
> but
> I cannot find how to do that. Alternatively, I could enter two 'fake'
> bills,
> each one with one of the items, but that could become confusing later.
>
> Any suggestions?

Assuming you mean Business->Vendor Bill, each line item has a "taxable"
flag that specifies whether or not you should apply the TaxTable to that
line item.  So just mark the taxable one and don't mark the non-taxable
one.

> Thanks a lot!!
>
> Daniel

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-derek

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