Another little one to think about...

[RollerBall]

Here in the UK our sales tax is called VAT. In most (all?) shops that ordinary people go into, prices are quoted including tax (at the extortionate rate of 17.5%). It's different for business-to-business sales, but you'd rarely use DHPOS for those.

So when you see a portable TV on sale for £100 you know it includes tax of £14.89.

Now let's say I have that TV in my shop and I'm offering a coupon of £10. What I want to do is give a customer £10 INCLUDING tax off the TV, not £10 plus tax.

But DHPOS makes me do the latter.

Is that what's intended cos it ain't quite right for the UK

OK, I can work around it by inputting the value of a £10 coupon as £8.51 I guess so it certainly isn't the end of the world...

Hmm...the more I think about this, it's an accountancy nightmare. Say I accept a manufacturer's coupon on a food product for £0.25. In the UK, food is zero rated ie there's no tax on it. Maybe I ought to look at allowing the employee to change tax at time of sale and setting the tax rate on all coupons at 0% - so the coupon is input at full face value. Then at the end of the day the company accountant would collect all the coupons together and do a manual tax computation and adjustment.

Just off to see whether that works.

[RollerBall]

Replying to myself here ...... almost as bad as talking to yourself I suppose.

Yep, that seems to be the only way to do it. It means the tax figure on the customer receipt isn't quiiiite right - but won't lose too much sleep over that.

If the customer then decides to return the item for a refund after a coupla weeks guess the only possible action would be to shoot yourself

The ramblings of a madman.......