How to register Japanese VAT

[Tomoo Nomura]

Geert and Mike,

Thank you, for your explanations.
Japanese VAT system might be very simple and I could understand how 
Gnucash can handle more complex system.
It is now discussed at Japanese Parliament that multiple tax rate system 
should be introduced or not.
If adopted, most of Japanese accounting software might be useless.
Gnucash will be the champion.

Thanks,
Tomoo

> I am going to put this another way. Let me start by pointing out that I
> do NOT know how Japanese VAT works for personal expenses. Maybe it is
> really simple, that it applied to EVERYTHING you might spend money on
> and at the same rate and with simple (normal) rounding rules.
>
> So I will instead discuss this in terms of "sales tax" which many of our
> states have (including the one where I live). And for which the rules are:

> You expect automatic calculation for THAT?


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