On 3/9/2024 1:34 PM, R Losey wrote:
Regarding below, perhaps Amazon does it that way because some states
(locations) exempt certain items from sales tax: Wisconsin, for example,
used to not tax food. In Texas also, food is not taxed.
And Massachusetts does not tax food or clothing. The necessary
assumption is that every taxing authority is different. Nor do they
handle "rounding" the same way (in some states always "rounding" UP
fractions of a cent). This sort of thing is NOT normally handled by the
"general ledger" system. That's what a POS (point of sales) system is
for, although that system would also normally feed inventory as well as
"general ledger".
You are asking way too much of gnucash. It's more than a sales tax rate
for each state (and city or other jurisdiction that charges a sales
tax). It is for each how rounding is to be performed, what the sales tax
does or does not apply to, etc.
To go back to my own state of MA and clothing. That is NOT all clothing.
Articles of clothing costing less than a certain amount are exempt from
sales tax (*I think that's $175). But "clothing" considered for athletic
use is not exempt, nor is protective clothing. That means WHERE BOUGHT
can matter. Buy sneakers at the department store, exempt, but at the
sports shop, taxed. Buy gloves at the department store, exempt, but at
the hardware store, taxed.
You expect gnucash to be ale to handle that sort of detail.
Michael D Novack
* Understand? Buy two pairs of X shoes costing $100 each and the line
would be "X shoes $200 no tax charged but buy one pair of Y shoes
costing $200, the line would be "Y shoes $200 sales tax $13.50
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