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. >>
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