Re: Tax account creation: how to 'detect' tax accounts?

[o1bigtenor <..hidden..>]

On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 2:56 PM, Luke <..hidden..> wrote:
> On Sun, 19 Jun 2011, Erik Huelsmann wrote:
>
>> the check marks in the screen say "Include in selection list"; a user
>> might deselect the check marks, resulting in the above logic to
>> conclude that the account is no longer a tax account. The conclusion
>> is incorrect of course.
>
> For sanity's sake, those checkmarks should revert to unchecked, and the
> properties not be saved, if the tax checkbox is not selected.
>
> If it's not selected as a tax account, it shouldn't be permitted to appear
> in tax dropdowns.
> That will prevent accidentally selecting it for dropdowns, but forgetting
> to mark it as a tax account.
>
>> On gTalk, we agreed the best course of action is to add a
>> characteristic to the account's 'account' record to say it's a tax
>> account. When that check mark is selected, there should also be a row
>> in the 'tax' table which describes the calculation rules to be
>> applied. We should probably deny changing the 'tax' check mark after
>> the account has been posted to though [if we really want that, I
>> should look into triggers in the database to achieve that goal; no
>> idea off hand how to arrange that denial].
>
> Why?
>
> I mean, I know it would be kind of nonsensical to uncheck that box after
> the fact, but if for some reason someone really wanted to, maybe they
> should be able to.
>
> So I'll ask the question: is there any conceivable reason why someone
> might want to uncheck a tax account?

Export sales. Years ago I looked at buying something while I was in
Europe. Local purchasers paid 18% tax but because I was shipping the
item directly out of country the tax was 0%.

Darald
>
> The only one I can think of, is someone wanting to temporarily prevent
> that tax from being calculated or included.
> I don't know why you'd want to do that, either, but I don't know
> everything everyone might need to do under unusual circumstances.
>
> Luke
>
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