How to register Japanese VAT

[Geert Janssens]

On Monday 10 March 2014 15:01:55 Tomoo Nomura wrote:
> Geert,
> 
> Thank you, for your information.
> "AUTOMATICALLY" means that, for example,  when I enter an expense
> record which is "take a taxi spend 630 JP YEN", Gnucash should
> automatically make two records which are  "take a taxi 600 YEN" and
> "payed VAT 30 YEN". Does Gnucash have this function ?
> I know it can do if I create a vendor record for a taxi and make a
> bill for the taxi. What I need is every expense entry makes VAT
> record automatically, even though it doesn't have a bill record.
> Currently I use "SPLIT" function and enter two records, expense detail
> and VAT, every time. It's  really annoying.
> 
The basic registers are optimized for personal accounting for which it usually is not necessary 
to do things such as splitting VAT. That is typically something a small business user would need 
to do. For such user the business features have been implemented.

So no, you can't do it automatically in a standard register. You can only let gnucash handle it 
automatically for you if you use the business features. And that means entering each expense 
as a bill.

Regards,
Geert