[GNC] Tax tables changing

[Finfort]

 I say yes, reset the tax tables and I choose the tax table with new name but it shows me the same old tax table name. Is it correct???
  

  
  
  

  
  
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> On Jun 21, 2020 at 20:13,  <Adrien Monteleone (mailto:adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net)>  wrote:
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>  The current terminology is: “Reset Tax Tables to current values?” “Yes, reset the Tax Tables” “No, keep them as they are” Regards, Adrien  >  On Jun 20, 2020 w25d172, at 7:59 AM, Derek Atkins  <derek at ihtfp.com>  wrote:  >   >  Hi,  >   >  On Sat, June 20, 2020 6:55 am, finfort at gmail.com wrote:  >>  I have renamed some of taxtables and see the same old names in my bills  >>  and invoices.  >>   >>  I also see a lot of records with the same taxtable names in Postgresql  >>  table "taxtables".  >>   >>  Could some body explain the logics of this table? What is "parent" in it?  >   >  If you search the archives I'm sure you'll find I've gone through this in  >  excruciating detail in the past.  >   >  In short, Tax Tables get frozen when an invoice is posted. And future  >  changes to the Tax Tables introduce a Copy-on-Write semantic.  >   >  The reasoning is that if you post an invoice in 2018 with a 2% tax and  >  then in 2019 that tax changes to 3%, if in 2020 you need to revisit that  >  2018 invoice you want it to display with 2% tax, not 3% tax. So to solve  >  this problem the tax tables are frozen on posting. When you unpost an  >  invoice with tax-table associations it asks you whether you want to keep  >  the taxes or "unfreeze" them (I forget the terminology). I.e., if you  >  unposted that 2018 invoice and told it to unfreeze, then it would change  >  those taxes from 2% to 3% and the values would change when you re-posted  >  the invoice. Sometimes this may be what you want (e.g. to correct an  >  error in the tax table), but sometimes it may NOT be what you want (e.g.  >  to correct a typing error).  >   >  The "parent" is a pointer from the frozen tax table to the non-frozen one.  >  So when the 2018 invoice is posted, it freezes and when you change it in  >  2019 you get a parent/child relationship between them.  >   >  Hope this helps! _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user at gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.  
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