[GNC] Bill total does not match real total

[Alan Johnson]

Please refer to the attachments. One is the Amazon invoice for an
order.  This order is for Florida with a 7.5% sales tax. 

It contains 3 items, 4.99, 34.99, and 7.99.  

This subtotals to 47.97. 

47.97 *.075 = 3.5955 according to my handy calculator.  

Amazon charged me $3.59 for sales tax. 

Gnucash calculated the sales tax (through the Vender -> bill interface
at 3.60.  

An adjustment was required to make the gnucash entry match the actual
bill from the vendor.  (-.01 to sales tax).  



On Thu, 2024-03-07 at 10:18 -0800, Stan Brown (using GC 4.14) wrote:
> On 2024-03-07 06:56, Alan Johnson via gnucash-user wrote:
> > Having entered numerous bills from Amazon and Costco recently,
> > there 
> > have been a few cases where the sales tax did not match. This
> > required 
> > an additional line item to adjust the sales tax to make the totals 
> > match.
> 
> I'm not quite clear on what you mean by "do not match".
> 
> If you mean that you computed the sales tax for each taxable item,
> added
> your computed tax amount, and found that the sales tax charged was
> different, that's because in many (?most) states with sales tax, the
> tax
> is computed, by law, on the total of the taxable items, not on the
> individual items.
> 
> Like you (if that's what you're doing), I include sales tax as part
> of
> the cost of each taxable item, and then I do sometimes find that my
> total tax is a penny more or less than the tax on the receipt. It's
> not
> a "vendor software problem", but the mathematical issue that Michael
> Novack alludes to.
> 
> If that's not what you're doing, what exactly is not matching to
> what?
> 
> Stan Brown
> Tehachapi, CA, USA
> https://BrownMath.com
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