This doesn’t answer the base issue of where the accounts are placed in the report, but shouldn’t that VAT account be a liability instead of expense? Is this VAT that you are charging customers and passing along to the government? Or is this VAT that you are paying on purchases?
Regards, Adrien > On Aug 8, 2018, at 6:31 PM, brainwash <[email protected]> wrote: > > This problem might be two-folded. > > I have several categories of payments or receivables that have both positive > and negative entries. For example, I might receive payment with VAT included > but the respective amount is later paid out after a few months. This shows > an entry under "comes from"(+) for the total billed and an entry under "goes > to"(-) for the VAT. Since that amount is never mine to begin with, I would > like it to just be subtracted from the incoming ("from") section. > > The second issue is receiving discounts (on health insurance) or making > corrections (on income). The effect of those special situations is that > "Expenses" show up under the "from" section and "Income" shows up under the > "to" section. I would like Expenses to always show up in the section below > and Income above. > > Example how it looks now: > --- > Money into selected accounts comes from > Income:Invoices 100 > Expenses:Insurance:Health Insurance 10 > Money in: 110 > --- > Money out of selected accounts goes to > Expenses:Taxes:VAT 19 > Expenses:Insurance:Health Insurance 100 > Money out: 119 > > An idea about how it would be nice to look: > --- > Money into selected accounts comes from > Income:Invoices 100 > Expenses:Taxes:VAT (19) > Money in: 81 > --- > Money out of selected accounts goes to > Expenses:Insurance:Health Insurance (10) > Expenses:Insurance:Health Insurance 100 > Money out: 90 > > Maybe it's the wrong report to use for this or the wrong category (account) > assignment. Not sure what a good solution to this would be. > > > > -- > Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-User-f1415819.html > _______________________________________________ > 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.
