Re: [GNC] withholding tax (Liz Dodd)

2020-10-02 Thread Adrien Monteleone
The normal process payment function only splits for the invoices/bills selected. So if you are paying one invoice, you get one payment split and one AR/AP split. If you are paying multiple invoices, you'll still only have one payment split, but one AR/AP split for each invoice/bill. If

Re: [GNC] withholding tax (Liz Dodd)

2020-10-02 Thread Christopher Lam
Typo in middle section: Therefore your *only *currently available steps is (IMHO): process payment as usual, for *$100 *only. This creates a regular transaction: - asset:bank +100 - a/receivable -100 (to clear the invoice) On Fri, 2 Oct 2020 at 15:26, Christopher Lam wrote: > While

Re: [GNC] withholding tax (Liz Dodd)

2020-10-02 Thread Christopher Lam
While experimenting this problem, I found it exposes a subtle behaviour/bug... I was hoping to do the following manual assignment: create a transaction with 3 splits - - asset:bank +80 - a/receivable -100 - asset:WHT +20 then right-click the transaction, assign $80 as payment for the invoice.

Re: [GNC] withholding tax

2020-10-02 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 10/2/2020 4:17 AM, Paul W via gnucash-user wrote: Thanks Maf, that does seem to work. Shame there's not an automatic way to do this as WHT isn't a tax from Mars! Doing in two transactions simply avoids the complexity of entering a split from the "wrong" account. It's just a little more

Re: [GNC] withholding tax (Liz Dodd)

2020-10-02 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 10/2/2020 12:18 AM, Paul W via gnucash-user wrote: Stan, I see what you are saying. Practically I think I need to process the invoice payment twice, first part payment (80) to Accounts Receivable then another payment (20) to Assets: WHT. But I don't seem to have this ability in gnucash

Re: [GNC] withholding tax

2020-10-02 Thread Paul W via gnucash-user
Thanks Maf, that does seem to work. Shame there's not an automatic way to do this as WHT isn't a tax from Mars! On Friday, 2 October 2020, 15:09:37 GMT+8, Maf. King wrote: Hi Paul, A possible way to deal with this is to process the full payment to your bank account, then go an manually

Re: [GNC] withholding tax (Liz Dodd)

2020-10-02 Thread Maf. King
Hi Paul, A possible way to deal with this is to process the full payment to your bank account, then go an manually split the witholding portion out of the transaction as it appears in the bank account. so step 1. process payment for the full £100 step 2. Go to the bank account, edit the

Re: [GNC] withholding tax (Liz Dodd)

2020-10-01 Thread Paul W via gnucash-user
Stan, I see what you are saying. Practically I think I need to process the invoice payment twice, first part payment (80) to Accounts Receivable then another payment (20) to Assets: WHT. But I don't seem to have this ability in gnucash because when I process an invoice payment in the 'post

Re: [GNC] withholding tax (Liz Dodd)

2020-10-01 Thread Paul W via gnucash-user
Foreign Government A keeps this money and My Government B will credit this amount against my corporation tax liability. My invoice is for the full amount, £100. Usually (without WHT) when the invoice is paid the full amount is sent to my Accounts Receivable. In this case I think the way to do

Re: [GNC] withholding tax

2020-10-01 Thread Liz Dodd
On Thu, 1 Oct 2020 05:41:31 + (UTC) Paul W via gnucash-user wrote: > I invoice my client £100 for services provided. They process my > invoice and pay me the balance of £80 after deducting 20% (£20) > withholding tax which they give to foreign government A. How do I > account for this

[GNC] withholding tax

2020-09-30 Thread Paul W via gnucash-user
I invoice my client £100 for services provided. They process my invoice and pay me the balance of £80 after deducting 20% (£20) withholding tax which they give to foreign government A. How do I account for this withholding tax in gnucash? ___