Re: Are purchase orders supposed to calculate taxes?

2015-01-10 Thread Pierre Smits
Christian, Gavin has good points. Apart from the fiscal requirements in specific countries (and OFBiz should be applicable in those countries too), there is another good reason to have calculation of VAT and other taxes on orders. That is that the information gathered/registered when having it is

Re: Are purchase orders supposed to calculate taxes?

2014-12-30 Thread Gavin Mabie
Hi Christian Tax, specifically VAT must be reflected on Purchases Invoices as a legal requirement in most countries that use VAT. On the accounting side of things, VAT paid on Purchases represents a credit whilst VAT charged on Sales represent a debit on the same account. The company can then cla

Re: Are purchase orders supposed to calculate taxes?

2014-12-30 Thread Christian Carlow
Thanks Scott, I read that post too but wanted to make sure it was still valid since it was so old. I'll create a JIRA to remove tax calculations from purchase orders. On 12/29/2014 10:13 PM, Scott Gray wrote: http://markmail.org/message/mzbu3i336uu6csps As always, there's plenty of previou

Re: Are purchase orders supposed to calculate taxes?

2014-12-29 Thread Scott Gray
http://markmail.org/message/mzbu3i336uu6csps As always, there's plenty of previous discussion if you search for purchase order tax on ofbiz.markmail.org Regards Scott On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 3:41 PM, Christian Carlow < christian.car...@gmail.com> wrote: > If Accounting->Tax Authorities->Product

Are purchase orders supposed to calculate taxes?

2014-12-29 Thread Christian Carlow
If Accounting->Tax Authorities->Product Rates exists for a category of a purchase order product, taxes are applied to the purchase order. Is this correct or should taxes only apply to sales order? Isn't purchase order sales tax supposed to be manually added as adjustment?