Hello Phil I ran into the same problem. There is a request to make that particular tax calculation a global option .. that is, a system preference to either calculate or not-calculate tax on AP transactions.
I believe Chris is considering it for 1.3 and I'm hoping it will happen. My work-around has been to use vendor invoice instead of AP transaction. It turns out to have some advantages anyway. I set up a dummy service to match each expense account and apply the vendor invoice to that service. The tax is then calculated and applied correctly, although annoyingly it is not shown explicitly on the vendor invoice. If the option for tax calculation appears in a later version, I will probably use a mixture of AP transactions and vendor invoices as I've now found the vendor invoice to be useful in other ways anyway. We live and learn :) Alternatively, if you enter the tax manually it should work correctly, although it's annoying and obviously less than ideal. In earlier versions, before that calculation was disabled, you could always over-ride it by clicking update, then changing the tax manually before posting. If you go to the change log on the LSMB website, you will see the version where the change was made.. its listed there. (fairly recent). The nice thing is that Chris is responsive to suggestions and working on it! regards, David. Phil Ross wrote: > Unfortunately there are some serious problems with tax calculations in > LedgerSMB. I have raised them on this list before. I am not sure why > the behaviour changed between versions, and I believe there are also > problems getting tax to appear on certain reports. > > I have not heard about whether there is a fix for this, and what > release it can be expected. > > I work around this by disabling any "tax included" for vendors, and go > over all the tax carefully before submitting returns to the > Government. > > LedgerSMB looks promising and it is clearly an active project with > ongoing development, so a fix shouldn't be too far away. Until then > the problems with tax calculations appear to be significant and > extreme caution should be exercised when using it. > > On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 3:43 PM, Peter McKenna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi, >> I just upgraded from 1.2.9 to 1.2.16 and all seems to have gone well. Thanks >> to whoever did the deb package. >> In 1.2.9 I began to notice the problems with AP Transactions and tax (in my >> case GST) not adding up properly. >> I notice in 1.2.16 if I tick 'Tax Included' and the tickbox by the tax drop >> down but don't manually enter the tax amount tax is not calculated and >> posted as it should be. >> If I enter the tax amount the total is wrong, it adds the tax amount to the >> original amount that already has tax included. That is tax is added in >> twice, however the figures are posted correctly in a Tax Paid report. >> I've read some of the posts from Chris Travers regarding the difference in >> tax requirements in different parts of the world, difficulties with rounding >> and mixing taxable and non taxable items on the same invoice. I can >> appreciate that trying to have a system that is flexible enough to cover the >> different requirements in different countries is hard, but I would like to >> be able to revert my system to the way it used to work (calculate tax >> automatically) without reverting to an older version. >> Can someone confirm what the last release was that handled tax in the old >> way and ideally which code page I need to look at changing? >> Regards, >> Peter McKenna >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge >> Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great >> prizes >> Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world >> http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ >> _______________________________________________ >> Ledger-smb-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ledger-smb-users > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > _______________________________________________ > Ledger-smb-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ledger-smb-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Ledger-smb-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ledger-smb-users
