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Travis Waelbroeck

Hello,

I need to know how to create and process a refund for Taxes only (no invoice lines).


For example, I have an invoice which has been paid with:

Subtotal: $100

Taxes: $7

Total: $107


The next day, the customer gives me their Tax Exemption form, so I now need to refund the $7 taxes.


If I try to process a refund for taxes only, I get an error message stating: 

Global taxes defined, but they are not in invoice lines !


How can I refund this correctly so that my "Tax" totals will be valid at the end of the year?


I am surprised this issue has not come up before (from what I can find).

Any suggestions?

Thanks

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Ray Carnes
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Perhaps this works: Create a service product called TAX with the correct income account. Add it to the Credit Invoice line and change the amount to $7 ??

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Travis Waelbroeck
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Wouldn't this still refund a general $7, albeit from the correct account (it is not a tax-only account, though)?

Ray Carnes

Make the account on the product the same account your tax is set to accrue. It will simply take out the $7 you put there when you validated the Invoice

Travis Waelbroeck
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My confusion stemmed from the fact that our Tax Accounts weren't set up correctly. All items (and tax) got put into the same account. I separated the Taxes to go into the Tax Received account as expected, then created the TAX product with the same account.

Ray Carnes

Great. Thanks for the update - so this works as expected?

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Ermin Trevisan
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In addition to Ray's answer you should also add a tax code with a tax value of 100% and assign it to the service product.

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Travis Waelbroeck
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Wouldn't this refund $7 unit price and $7 tax?

Ermin Trevisan

It should not (price must be tax included). The following link should give you the idea: http://www.camptocamp.com/en/actualite/openerp-tax-100-on-import/