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Pierre Smits commented on OFBIZ-9492:
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HI [~paul_foxworthy],
You're correct. Not only should the tax paid be separated from the tax
collected (booked to separate gl accounts), but also should it be so that the
tax accounting transactions can be separated based on the tax types.
> Tax Authorities need two GL accounts for sales and purchases
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>
> Key: OFBIZ-9492
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-9492
> Project: OFBiz
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: accounting
> Affects Versions: Trunk
> Reporter: Paul Foxworthy
> Assignee: Paul Foxworthy
> Labels: accounting, vat
>
> In jurisdictions with Value Added Tax, you need to track tax you have paid on
> purchases, and tax you have collected with sales. When you report to a tax
> authority, you pay them the difference between the two, i.e. you pay tax on
> the value added, not on your inputs.
> OFBiz has an entity, TaxAuthorityGlAccount (TAGLA), which currently assumes
> the GL account is for a sale.
> We need to extend OFBiz so it is possible to find two GL accounts for a tax
> authority, one for sales and one for purchases.
> I propose:
> - Define a new Enumeration for the direction of a transaction. I suggest
> calling the Enumeration TAGLADIR, with two values TAGLADIR_INCOMING
> and TAGLADIR_OUTGOING.
> We could reuse an existing indication of the direction of a transaction,
> for example the GlAccountClassIds INCOME and EXPENSE. However, when we receive
> income from a sale, we would incur a tax *liability*, and the GL account for
> that
> would be a liability account. So I think it would be less confusing to have a
> separate enum here that's just for TAGLA.
> - add a new attribute to the TaxAuthorityGlAccount entity for the direction
> of the transaction.
> The new attribute should be included in the primary key.
> - Add a new service in TaxAuthorityServices named getTaxAuthorityGlAccountId
> which
> looks up a TAGLA given primary key values, including the direction
> - There are two places in TaxAuthorityServices that would call
> getTaxAuthorityGlAccountId: getTaxAdjustments and getItemTaxAdjustments, one
> for orders, and the other for invoice item types. The direction can be
> inferred from the order type or the invoice item type
> - createAcctgTransForPurchaseInvoice and
> createAcctgTransForCustomerReturnInvoice
> should use getTaxAuthorityGlAccountId
> - createAcctgTransactionForSalesInvoice should be rewritten to use
> getTaxAuthorityGlAccountId.
> I am working on a patch to do this, but I'd like your thoughts on my proposal
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