Re: Sales Tax Bug

[Chris Travers <..hidden..>]

On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 1:49 PM, Luke <..hidden..> wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Apr 2011, Chris Travers wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 12:43 AM, Luke <..hidden..> wrote:
>>> In 2.6.18, if an old invoice had a salestax rate of 1% on it,
>
> Geeze.  That's what I get for asking questions at that hour.
> 1.2.18.
>
>>> and that invoice is opened after the rate has changed to 2%, the tax shown
>>> will be at the 2% rate.
>>>
>>> That makes reversing that invoice a tricky prospect.
>>>
>>> Has this been fixed in later 2.6 versions?
>>
>> Are you asking about SQL-Ledger 2.6?  Or LedgerSMB 1.2?
>
> LSMB 1.2.  Sorry about that.  I was dealing with SL on another project,
> and forgot what versioning system I was talking about.
>
>> In LedgerSMB this is doable because you can expire tax rates and set
>> new ones (however, there is a db patch in sql/fixes/ required to make
>> this work).
>
> I guess I'll need to apply that then, as it isn't working out of the box
> on 1.2.18 (expired tax works, but old invoices get the new tax rate for
> the time period before the valid-to).
>
> I'll upgrade to the latest 1.2 while I'm at it.

Ok.

Then what you need to do is enter the OLD rate and date of change in
the Valid To field
Then enter the NEW rate with a blank valid to.  The issue is that if
you dont apply the tax fixes, you get database error when you do this
last step.

Best Wishes,
Chris Travers
>
> Thanks
>
> Luke
>
>
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