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??? :-)
Peter Carl Linkletter VMware Consultant and VMware Certified Instructor Pair-a-Links Consulting Inc. Swift Current, Saskatchewan, Canada Email: pairali...@protonmail.com Phone: 306-315-3926 Linked-in: https://www.linkedin.com/in/plinkletter/ Sent with Proton Mail secure email. On Saturday, March 9th, 2024 at 2:58 PM, Michael or Penny Novack <stepbystepf...@comcast.net> wrote: > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
