Re: More invoices

[Dieter S. <dsi...@sq...>]

For anyone, Gord is Canadian, so his woes are related to the Canadian
version of the Gouge and Screw Tax (GST) The tax is a rather complex
matter on top of it too.

To clarify a few things for you, Gord.

 a) invoices from companies in the US to you are subject to GST (it
doesn't matter if you are registered or not) The company in the US does
not levi the tax but you or your broker are responsible for it.
 b) since you are not registered, tax for you is *not* an input tax credit
but is an expense


Now to your tax included woes.

you can check the box GST to indicate that a vendor / customer is taxable.
When you first create an invoice you get a selection menu with names, etc.
Everything is set for the initial vendor / customer. NOW, how do you think
the tax included field is affected when you change the name?

You created an invoice, selected a name, checked the box tax included,
entered the item and pressed "Update Form". Hmm, three things happened at
once here. The name changed from the initial, so we have to retrieve the
information for the vendor / customer, the part number was entered, so we
get the information for the part, we recalculate the prices in accordance
to the tax included field.

Do you understand now why the tax included field changed?


Dieter Simader    http://www.sql-ledger.org   (780) 472-8161
DWS Systems Inc.     Accounting Software       Fax: 478-5281
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On Sun, 16 Sep 2001, Gordon Haverland wrote:

> I did try to figure out how things worked, and I did ask questions.
> And I did try to follow suggestions put forward.
> 
> How is it that I am crying wolf, to notice that when I enter
> the information for something I have been billed, that it
> always undoes the setting of the tax included button?  Is
> this how an accounting program is supposed to work?  Sorry,
> I haven't been using them for long.  Where is the insult
> I've thrown?
> 
> Heck, I've just come to the conclusion that all the stuff 
> which I have entered over the last 0.75 days needs to be 
> deleted and redone anyway.  And it's going to be a long 
> process if I have to hit update twice before I post either 
> a vendor or a customer invoice.
> 
> To avoid anyone thinking I'm crying wolf or throwing insults,
> how do I redo this work?  I am recieving bills from vendors
> for 2 kinds of services: one from a US company where I never
> was charged GST (maybe I should have been, but wasn't), the
> other from a Canadian company where I was charged GST.  These
> are being forwarded to a customer, and I am not charging
> GST (yet)?  I will eventually have to charge GST, but until
> I reach some magic number I don't need to.
> 
> I think it's going to take me an hour or so to delete
> all the stuff I've entered.  If someone has some ideas as
> to how I can do this correctly, I would be happy to hear them.
> Otherwise, I'll continue to struggle and maybe things will
> work out this time.
> 
> Gord
> 
> 
>