Not accumulating splits on invoices; recording individual line item dates in sales

[Derek Atkins]

jsp_1983 <jmsp.1983 at gmail.com> writes:

> I think I see.
>
> My understanding (and God knows I've no idea where to look for clarification
> in Human-readable format) is that the taxable 'instance' (in the UK) occurs
> when the work is considered to be done rather than when it is invoiced for,
> but from what you're saying, it sounds like the general rule is that it's
> only the invoice date.
>
> If the latter is the case, I'm perfectly happy to keep it that way.

And if it's the former then you will have to create multiple invoices
(one per taxable date), and then send those along with a Customer Report
(summary).

Within GnuCash an invoice it at official date, even if the line items of
the invoice are from different dates.  The Invoice is itself
meta-information, but results in a single transaction.  A transaction
can only have one date.  For multiple dates you need multiple
transactions which means multiple invoices.

Enjoy!

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-derek

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