[GNC] Bill total does not match real total

[Michael or Penny Novack]

On 3/9/2024 5:12 PM, Carl Linkletter wrote:
> Thanks for all that Michael.  So the summary is, why would I think that one system could possibly handle all the regulations that incompetent and narcissistic bureaucrats could come up with?    What was I thinking??? :-)

This is equivalent to asking why we have independent countries, each 
making their own laws and setting taxes rather than a centralized world 
government.

In the US, "sales tax" is not federal. Except in the sense of certain 
"excise taxes" we have no national sales tax. The problem is not that 
any particular state's sales taxes have bizarre regulations but that 
there is no reason why the regulations adopted in one state should be 
the same as in another. The differences are NOT because of 
incompetent/narcissistic bureaucrats --- and in any case, the 
bureaucrats of a state do not set sales tax regulations, the elected 
politicians do.

But in any case, what I was really saying is that dealing with this 
issue is OUTSIDE the normal scope of a "general ledger" system. It is 
the job of a POS system to handle that and send a feed to "general 
ledger" with the transaction having the correct amounts. It would also 
send a feed to "inventory" to record the depletion of items (and 
"inventory" would then send a transaction to "general ledger" for cost 
of goods sold.

Gnucash is a general ledger system, not a complete business system with 
"payroll", "inventory", "POS", etc. Or if for an organization, maybe 
also things like "pledge accounting"

Gnucash does not have these partner systems. AFAIK no team in the open 
software world is trying to organize a "business system" project. BTW 
--- I am STRONGLY on the "modular design" side of that issue, so would 
want separate teams doing the components << the "business system" team 
would be in charge of making sure the pieces all cooperate, well defined 
interfaces, etc. >>

Michael D Novack