AU - Manually edit AU GST on transactions
In Australia, users need to be able to manually edit the amount of GST paid on a transaction. This is required because certain transactions (particularly grocery and pharmacy transactions) have a mixture of items, some of which have GST applied, and some that do not. Unfortunately, the receipts for these types of transactions do not indicate which specific items have incurred GST - they just have a total amount of GST paid on that receipt. As such, it would be great if users could just override the total amount of GST paid for those receipts. See attached for an example of such a receipt.
Andrew Ball
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Rachel Booker
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It causes me pain as when it has added up all the lines requiring GST then rounds them all up THEN adds them together it can be out by upwards of 20-25c sometimes more! The system doesnt even cross check to ensure it is not charging more GST than it would if it calculated by the subtotal instead.... it cant be that hard to add an if/then statement in the coding that overrides a gst calculation based on what it would be using the subtotal (if the line by line = more than the subtotal would then default to the subtotal calculation).
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Ben Mitchell
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We just need the ability to choose as a default setting if we want Xero to pick up the GST by line item - OR - by the total shown on the tax invoice. This could even be a default setting by vendor/supplier
This should quite easily solve the headache of having to manually check hundreds of bills every month to maybe pickup a hand full where the calculation has been done wrong.
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Mary Titulaer
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This shouldn't be so hard - the feature has been available for many many years with MYOB. I can see that it is a feature in Xero that is already available in other countries so it would be great to apply that to Australia as well. Here's the Xero Link from another country that offers the feature already https://youtu.be/hChr4tLt0LI
Please Xero fix this. Thanks
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Andrew Ball
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Michelle - fine, but the need to override GST in Xero still exists :)
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Michelle Wasley
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The # infront of each item purchased is the item that has the gst component. (on the woolworths receipt)
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Audrey Connelly
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would be great we we could override or manually edit the GST on a transaction that may be part GST and part non GST, like any item that is only part deductible rather than having to manually split into two lines one gst and one non gst. Keeps the gross as one figure, easier to trace.
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Ray Phillips
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This is very important to my business as well. The invoices I'm thinking of do list which items are subject to GST but there's no need for us to put each one into Xero (that'd be far too time consuming), just the total for each invoice, but at present it isn't possible. :(
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Jared Mortos
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Manual GST input should be available in AR / AP.
I am dealing with a supplier invoice that has a private ruling from the Australian Taxation Office - the company's GST is not 10%, it is calculated based on a ratio of taxable and non-taxable food items, making them a mixed supply of GST applicable items in one pack.
This is causing rounding errors.
If only GST amounts or percentages can be manually overridden and inputs in the "New Bill" screen and the final amount can be changed to match the supplier invoice.
This is something that I would expect Xero to have already.
It is annoying to have to go into Accounting > Advanced > Tax Rates to create a ruling which doesn't apply to every invoice this supplier is issuing as the ratio of taxable and non-taxable food items can vary with each delivery. For example, sometimes the GST is 5.61% and another time it was 5.13% as calculated.
Please make this a thing.