Re: [GNC] Automatic sales tax

2022-03-03 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Our Legislature has set up at least 2 of those per year, and they can always do another or more one-offs. And at that, they aren't 'general' holidays. They only apply to the State rate, (and maybe not all of it at that) and then only to specific goods, and then not for written sales, but actua

Re: [GNC] Automatic sales tax

2022-03-03 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Tell them to try doing business in Louisiana. Ha! Regards, Adrien On 2/28/22 5:25 PM, Liz wrote: It's incredibly complex. And Australians have all been led to believe that we have the most complex tax system on the planet. ___ gnucash-user mailing

Re: [GNC] Automatic sales tax

2022-03-03 Thread Adrien Monteleone
The question is more likely one of 'when does the sale take place?' And for many jurisdictions, it takes place when 'good delivery has been made.' (when the revenue is earned, payment is irrelevant here) 1. So if you walk into a store, and walk out with goods, (paid or on credit) the point of

Re: [GNC] Automatic sales tax

2022-03-01 Thread John Layman
-user On Behalf Of Stan Brown Sent: Monday, February 28, 2022 9:58 AM To: gnucash-user@gnucash.org Subject: Re: [GNC] Automatic sales tax On 2022-02-28 06:34, Michael or Penny Novack wrote: > But if not a remote sale, if person living in state A buys something > at a seller in state B (and s

Re: [GNC] Automatic sales tax

2022-03-01 Thread John Layman
es tax. -Original Message- From: gnucash-user On Behalf Of Sebastian Naumann Sent: Monday, February 28, 2022 2:51 AM To: gnucash-user@gnucash.org Subject: Re: [GNC] Automatic sales tax Hi John, sorry, but I tend to disagree with your statement that "[...] most states consider the loc

Re: [GNC] Automatic sales tax

2022-02-28 Thread Liz
On Mon, 28 Feb 2022 18:58:20 -0500 Michael or Penny Novack wrote: > > It's incredibly complex. And Australians have all been led to > > believe that we have the most complex tax system on the planet. > > > > Liz > > > The reason is that here in the US sales tax is not national. The US > is a

Re: [GNC] Automatic sales tax

2022-02-28 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
It's incredibly complex. And Australians have all been led to believe that we have the most complex tax system on the planet. Liz The reason is that here in the US sales tax is not national. The US is a federation of states and commonwealths. You would not be surprised if 50 countries had

Re: [GNC] Automatic sales tax

2022-02-28 Thread David Carlson
At least you have the best opera house on the planet. On Mon, Feb 28, 2022 at 5:28 PM Liz wrote: > On Mon, 28 Feb 2022 06:58:08 -0800 > Stan Brown wrote: > > > On 2022-02-28 06:34, Michael or Penny Novack wrote: > > > But if not a remote sale, if person living in state A buys > > > something at

Re: [GNC] Automatic sales tax

2022-02-28 Thread Liz
On Mon, 28 Feb 2022 06:58:08 -0800 Stan Brown wrote: > On 2022-02-28 06:34, Michael or Penny Novack wrote: > > But if not a remote sale, if person living in state A buys > > something at a seller in state B (and state B has sales tax) > > collected based on that. Now the buyer might still owe sal

Re: [GNC] Automatic sales tax

2022-02-28 Thread Steve Butler
As soon as you dream up something that can't occur, the legislative assistants will incorporate that scenario into new law. On Mon, Feb 28, 2022, 09:48 Fred Bone wrote: > On 28 February 2022 at 10:28, William Prescott said: > > > Sebastian, > > > > Just to clarify, where the "item changed hands"

Re: [GNC] Automatic sales tax

2022-02-28 Thread Fred Bone
On 28 February 2022 at 10:28, William Prescott said: > Sebastian, > > Just to clarify, where the "item changed hands" may not be the seller's > location. I use to live just outside the border of a city that charged a > sales tax. When purchasing an item from a store within the city, I would > pay

Re: [GNC] Automatic sales tax

2022-02-28 Thread William Prescott
Sebastian, Just to clarify, where the "item changed hands" may not be the seller's location. I use to live just outside the border of a city that charged a sales tax. When purchasing an item from a store within the city, I would pay sales tax if I went into the store, purchased it, and took it

Re: [GNC] Automatic sales tax

2022-02-28 Thread Sebastian Naumann
Hi Michael, for sure, you are right. If it's not an internet sale, then the purchase was made at the seller's location (i.e. where the item exchanged hands) so the seller charges the rate at their location. Have a great day everyone. Am 2/28/22 um 3:34 PM schrieb Michael or Penny Novack: O

Re: [GNC] Automatic sales tax

2022-02-28 Thread Stan Brown
On 2022-02-28 06:34, Michael or Penny Novack wrote: > But if not a remote sale, if person living in state A buys something at > a seller in state B (and state B has sales tax) collected based on that. > Now the buyer might still owe sales tax to state A when bringing the > whatever home. The tax

Re: [GNC] Automatic sales tax

2022-02-28 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 2/28/2022 2:50 AM, Sebastian Naumann wrote: Hi John, sorry, but I tend to disagree with your statement that "[...] most states consider the location of the seller to be the nexus...". Actually the second part of the statement is correct: Most states are destination based, meaning the locat

Re: [GNC] Automatic sales tax

2022-02-27 Thread Sebastian Naumann
n point-of-sale systems and accounting packages. -Original Message- From: gnucash-user On Behalf Of Adrien Monteleone Sent: Monday, February 21, 2022 12:45 PM To:gnucash-u...@lists.gnucash.org Subject: Re: [GNC] Automatic sales tax Yeah, without a receipt in hand (or electronic) showing t

Re: [GNC] Automatic sales tax

2022-02-25 Thread John Layman
s and accounting packages. -Original Message- From: gnucash-user On Behalf Of Adrien Monteleone Sent: Monday, February 21, 2022 12:45 PM To: gnucash-u...@lists.gnucash.org Subject: Re: [GNC] Automatic sales tax Yeah, without a receipt in hand (or electronic) showing the breakout, no softwar

Re: [GNC] Automatic sales tax << slightly off topic (but mail related) >>

2022-02-22 Thread Sebastian Naumann
Hi everyone, if you need info / help with Sales Tax, I would be more than happy to help. This is actually what my company does. Even though we mainly deal with Online Retailers that generate Nexus thru the Inventory in the amazon warehouses across the country, we can certainly help answering

Re: [GNC] Automatic sales tax

2022-02-21 Thread Liz
On Mon, 21 Feb 2022 18:54:21 -0600 Adrien Monteleone wrote: > Keith, > > I’m not a mod. > > The instructions for unsubscribing are at the bottom of each e-mail. > You have to do it yourself. > > You can turn on Digest Mode if you prefer in your preferences. > > Please don’t e-mail list member

Re: [GNC] Automatic sales tax << slightly off topic (but mail related) >>

2022-02-21 Thread Stephen M. Butler
On 2/21/22 10:52, Michael or Penny Novack wrote: On 2/21/2022 1:09 PM, Stephen M. Butler wrote: Here in Washington state the state does post an address file to assigns rate codes by address.  In at least one case two houses with the same zip+4 are in different location codes.  Most web hosts P

Re: [GNC] Automatic sales tax

2022-02-21 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Keith, I’m not a mod. The instructions for unsubscribing are at the bottom of each e-mail. You have to do it yourself. You can turn on Digest Mode if you prefer in your preferences. Please don’t e-mail list members personally unless requested to do so, especially without copying the list. Re

Re: [GNC] Automatic sales tax << slightly off topic (but mail related) >>

2022-02-21 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 2/21/2022 1:09 PM, Stephen M. Butler wrote: Here in Washington state the state does post an address file to assigns rate codes by address.  In at least one case two houses with the same zip+4 are in different location codes.  Most web hosts POS systems can only go down to the zip code level

Re: [GNC] Automatic sales tax

2022-02-21 Thread Stephen M. Butler
On 2/21/22 07:00, Michael or Penny Novack wrote: On 2/20/2022 7:58 PM, David Carlson wrote: Here in Illinois it varies by county, city, merchandise category, service category, seller category and sometimes by such arcane variables as library district (well, that last one may be a slight exagge

Re: [GNC] Automatic sales tax

2022-02-21 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Yeah, without a receipt in hand (or electronic) showing the breakout, no software can assume or guess reliably. That is just insane. In my state, you can have one location in one jurisdiction depending on what side of the street it is on, and the two properties to the left and right can each b

Re: [GNC] Automatic sales tax

2022-02-21 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 2/20/2022 7:58 PM, David Carlson wrote: Here in Illinois it varies by county, city, merchandise category, service category, seller category and sometimes by such arcane variables as library district (well, that last one may be a slight exaggeration). And not only is it that complex, but th

Re: [GNC] Automatic sales tax

2022-02-20 Thread David Carlson
Here in Illinois it varies by county, city, merchandise category, service category, seller category and sometimes by such arcane variables as library district (well, that last one may be a slight exaggeration). On Sun, Feb 20, 2022, 6:33 PM Michael or Penny Novack < stepbystepf...@comcast.net> wro

Re: [GNC] Automatic sales tax

2022-02-20 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 2/20/2022 4:33 PM, Don Robertson wrote: Seems most other software will do this - Xero, MYOB etc. For open source fans, Kmymoney seems pretty good. And before you start mailing me personally, if you don't want to hear what people think of your software, perhaps you should consider removing

Re: [GNC] Automatic sales tax

2022-02-20 Thread davidcousens49
The thing is Don all those other software packages charge you an arm and a leg in most cases for their software. This allows them have paid development teams who customize their products for each specific jurisdictions in which they operate. GNuCash does not. GnuCash is used internationally in a

Re: [GNC] Automatic sales tax

2022-02-20 Thread Adrien Monteleone
I'm confused, is this part of some other thread? Or just a drive-by? Yes, GnuCash can do sales tax calculations too. Are you having trouble figuring it out? And the bit about CC'ing the list is specifically so people keep all discussion on the list, and *not* e-mailing list members personally

[GNC] Automatic sales tax

2022-02-20 Thread Don Robertson
Seems most other software will do this - Xero, MYOB etc. For open source fans, Kmymoney seems pretty good. And before you start mailing me personally, if you don't want to hear what people think of your software, perhaps you should consider removing this from all your posts: >>> Please remem