[jira] [Commented] (OFBIZ-9492) Tax Authorities need two GL accounts for sales and purchases

["Pierre Smits (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Pierre Smits commented on OFBIZ-9492:
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Re ' I presume the thinking is that exactly the same set of information is a purchase invoice from the perspective of the buyer, and a sales invoice from the perspective of the seller. If the two parties are both using OFBiz, it could even be exactly the same entity.'

From a business perspective the representatives of a legal organisation will/could use:
* their own OFBiz implementation (meaning that they could have both sales and purchasing transactions)
* functions in the OFBiz implementation of another legal entity (meaning that other legal entity owns the transactions).

So while there is a mix of perspectives, in one legal entity they can not be regarding the same: a sale is not a purchase.



> Tax Authorities need two GL accounts for sales and purchases
> ------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: OFBIZ-9492
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-9492
>             Project: OFBiz
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: accounting
>    Affects Versions: Trunk
>            Reporter: Paul Foxworthy
>            Assignee: Paul Foxworthy
>              Labels: accounting, vat
>
> In jurisdictions with Value Added Tax, you need to track tax you have paid on purchases, and tax you have collected with sales. When you report to a tax authority, you pay them the difference between the two, i.e. you pay tax on the value added, not on your inputs.
> OFBiz has an entity, TaxAuthorityGlAccount (TAGLA), which currently assumes the GL account is for a sale.
> We need to extend OFBiz so it is possible to find two GL accounts for a tax authority, one for sales and one for purchases.
> I propose:
> - Define a new Enumeration for the direction of a transaction. I suggest
> calling the Enumeration TAGLADIR, with two values TAGLADIR_INCOMING
> and TAGLADIR_OUTGOING.
> We could reuse an existing indication of the direction of a transaction,
> for example the GlAccountClassIds INCOME and EXPENSE. However, when we receive
> income from a sale, we would incur a tax *liability*, and the GL account for that
> would be a liability account. So I think it would be less confusing to have a
> separate enum here that's just for TAGLA.
> - add a new attribute to the TaxAuthorityGlAccount entity for the direction of the transaction.
> The new attribute should be included in the primary key.
> - Add a new service in TaxAuthorityServices named getTaxAuthorityGlAccountId which
> looks up a TAGLA given primary key values, including the direction
> - There are two places in TaxAuthorityServices that would call getTaxAuthorityGlAccountId: getTaxAdjustments and getItemTaxAdjustments, one for orders, and the other for invoice item types. The direction can be inferred from the order type or the invoice item type
> - createAcctgTransForPurchaseInvoice and createAcctgTransForCustomerReturnInvoice
> should use getTaxAuthorityGlAccountId
> - createAcctgTransactionForSalesInvoice should be rewritten to use getTaxAuthorityGlAccountId.
> I am working on a patch to do this, but I'd like your thoughts on my proposal



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