[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks for the prompt response.
I am looking for an application from which i can manage/issue both tax
reciepts as well as invoices.
I understand the invoicing isn't the issue, but the tax reciepts are.
Thanks
Ivor
I am not sure what does "tax receipts" mean, exactly. In Israeli tax
laws, receipts don't hold much legal value at all (at least for
businesses that pay VAT). An invoice is proof that a transaction took
place for both VAT and Income Tax authorities, and a receipt is only
really used to prove that actual payment took place. Many of my clients
don't even bother picking the later up, and don't care whether I issue
them or not.
The reason I stated the difference is because the wording of the law
leaves a lot to be desired in terms of clarity. There seems to be some
difference between software distributed commercially and other software,
and between software used merely for issuing invoices (and receipts),
and software actually used to do double-entry book keeping.
I actually tried to get in touch with someone in the tax authorities who
was in charge of this field, and failed. I got a phone number which may
or may not be the right one, because no one answered there.....
The consensus seems to be that you are free to manage your own invoices
in whatever way you wish, including a computerized method. The only
catch is that if it turns out that the software issues two invoices with
the same number, issues the same invoice twice labeling both as
"original", or any other from a series of such violations of the law,
then you cannot say "but it's the software". This is, really, what the
registration of the software all about.
Shachar
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Shachar Shemesh
Lingnu Open Source Consulting ltd.
http://www.lingnu.com/
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