So if I travel to Oregon in my car that takes regular gasoline, I have to avail myself of ‘full-service’ and can’t pump it myself?
> On May 22, 2018, at 6:46 PM, Rich Shepard <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, 22 May 2018, Matthew Pounsett wrote: > >> No, I have an expense item from an employee which they need to be >> reimbursed for. The employee includes as part of their expense report a >> receipt from the original vendor, which I'd like to track as a bill (for >> the reasons stated in my first email). > > Matthew, > > Thanks for clarifying. Since you're re-imbursing your employee your > bookkeeping system (GnuCash) doesn't need to know the vendor. If I were you > and wanted to track employee re-imbursements by vendor I'd keep a > spreadsheet or text file with that information. Or, I'd enter the vendor's > name in the transaction's memo field. > >> You mentioned you don't have employees... in your region can you get to >> balance sales tax from purchases against sales tax from sales? If so, how >> do you track an out of pocket expense that your corporation needs to >> reimburse you for when there are sales taxes involved? > > Oregon, for better or worse, does not have any sales taxes. We have high > property and income taxes instead so we residents pay for what visitors get > for free. For example, a cousin of mine lived in northern California and > built his house there. He drove up to Medford, OR, to purchase all the > materials -- tax free -- and saved all the California tax amounts. We also > cannot pump gasoline into our vehicles (unless they're motorcycles), but I > can drive my diesel pickup truck to the same station and pump the diesel > fuel myself. Never look for logic (or rationality) when it comes to > politics. > > Your accountant can probably advise you how to keep your books for > employee expenses, vendors, and sales taxes. I've had my accountant advise > me how to handle transactions that are not blazingly obvious to me as a > non-finance professional. > > Best regards, > > Rich > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > [email protected] > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > ----- > 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 [email protected] To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
