Invoice suggestion

[Derek Atkins]

Fabio Coatti <fabio.coatti at gmail.com> writes:

[snip]
>> You can compute the C' percentage by:
>
>> C(1+B) == .2 * (1+.1) == .2 * 1.1 == .22 == 22%
>
>>
>
>> So you would create a tax table where
>
>> B == 10% of A
>
>> C == 22% of A (which is 20% of A+B)
>
> Many thanks for the answer. However, that would be quite close, but if I am
> right in this way we lose the information that will allow to print, at the
> bottom of invoice, something like
>
> ===
>
> tax A 10% amountA
>
> tax B 20% amountB
>
> ===
>
> I'm struggling to find a way to accomplish this result... or to explain myself,
> I fear. Another way to put it is that two different taxes are involved, and one
> of the two is applied to the result of the other taxation, and in the invoice
> both should be stated in different lines. To be honest, it seems a quite
> involved process, but I'm not in charge to decide how taxes are applied :)

Oh, GnuCash does this for you, just not in the way you describe.

You can print both tax lines.  It does depend on which Invoice Report
you have, but generally go into the report options and turn on "Display
-> Individual Taxes".  This will display what you need.

>
> Fabio

-derek

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