tax

[bazza]

Hi,

I noticed some error from the display of tax on purchase screen.

With included tax, (eg: GST in Australia)

It should show up like this:

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STOCK NUMBER DESCRIPTION        PRICE
354117616112 BAG OF BRICKS       5.00
                 SUB TOTAL       5.00
           INCLUDES GST OF        .50
                     TOTAL       5.00

Also, could it be possible to give names to the tax rates. Eg: TAX1 (GST) TAX2 (VAT) etc???

Also, if you don't have use a taxrate (ie: it is 0.000%) you should be able to hide it on the end of day sales. could get confusing.....

comments?

[Dale Harris]

Bassa,

Actually the "SUB TOTAL" is the "net sales" (i.e., without tax) of your sale. Therefore in your sample it should be...
<pre>STOCK NUMBER DESCRIPTION PRICE
354117616112 BAG OF BRICKS 5.00
SUB TOTAL 4.50
INCLUDES GST OF .50
TOTAL 5.00</pre>
on a sale with included tax of 10%.

You can label each tax in the "Tax rate" feature of the POSCONFG.EXE program where is says <---- Print on receipt

[bazza]

Bassa,

Actually the "SUB TOTAL" is the "net sales" (i.e., without tax) of your sale. Therefore in your sample it should be...
<pre>STOCK NUMBER DESCRIPTION PRICE
354117616112 BAG OF BRICKS 5.00
SUB TOTAL 4.50
INCLUDES GST OF .50
TOTAL 5.00</pre>
on a sale with included tax of 10%.

You can label each tax in the "Tax rate" feature of the POSCONFG.EXE program where is says <---- Print on receipt

True, subtotal is total before tax, but as stated before taxation laws here in australia take a very dim look of placing the subtotal without tax.

this amount would be the same as the total, except where discounts are given etc.

all prices that are subjected to GST have GST added included on the price, with the total included GST of $0.50 somewhere on the docket to show how much tax they paid.

As I said in a previous post, there is not many laws (if any) where you are excluded from paying the GST tax, and hence why should the customer know what the subtotal is the law forbids them to exclude it.

They can work it out anyway, substract total from tax to work out the subtotal....

in australia, really the subtotal is the sale amount with tax (say, $24.99) and the total would be the rounded total ($25.00).

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Names of Taxes

While I am aware of the label each tax thing on the receipt, but internally in the system they are not. They're called TAX0, TAX1, TAX2. etc.....

What i'm trying to say is that internally, instead,
TAX0, can be called (GST-FREE, NO TAX, or simply blank)
TAX1, can be called (GST), which would inturn be displayed on the receipt.

If I'm a customer and see TAX9 @ 10.0000% = 300.00, I wonder tax 9? i didn't even though they had 9 taxes. Maybe they're ripping me off.

if they known what tax they are paying for, it would be easier for the customer to know what taxes they are paying for and where it is actually going.

Bassa.

[Andrew]

Barry,

I believe they're shown as TAX1 etc to save screen space (of which it is limited in the sales screen) - if they query it you can always print the receipt and show them the names.

[bazza]

Barry,

I believe they're shown as TAX1 etc to save screen space (of which it is limited in the sales screen) - if they query it you can always print the receipt and show them the names.

Hi,

im not quite sure, but isn't TAX1 etc not shown in the sales screen, but only as the percentage 10.000%.

Anyway If TAX1 were on the screen it, would take less 4 characters instead of the current 6 characters as the percentage.

I am not worried about the fact that the tax is show as a percentage on the sale screen. That is self explaintary. TAX1 is 10.000%, TAX2 is 8.000%, TAX3 is 75.984%.

the confusion here is, that when a receipt is printed that shows TAX1, the customer will be confused in what this tax this really is.

TAX1 doesn't give any clues to what the tax actually is.
it could even be tax that could be made up by the merchant!

TAX1 = 8.5% for cigarettes.
TAX2 = 7.9% for liquor
TAX3 = 18.2% depending on the brightness of the moon...
TAX4 = 4.3% depending on the number of water content of the item
etc....

when the customer looks on the receipt and sees:
tax1 @ 12.500% = 5.00
tax2 @ 8.000% = 2.50
.....
tax9 @ 2.000% = 0.20

they'll ask you, what is tax1? what is tax2? etc...

if on the other hand "tax1" is replaced with say "GST", they'll know what "GST" means and the applicable tax rate. and they'll be happy that you didn't charge them at the correct tax rate and more important a tax which actually exists, not a made up one.

i'm only really assuming here now, but most taxes have some intials like GST, PST, VAT etc.. so making the change wouldn't really affect the program if the tax name is a maximum of 4 characters.

comments? suggestions?

barry.