That’s by design. Payslip deduction is money which employer withholds from earnings to employee (e.g. taxes) on behalf of 3rd-party. So payslip deduction would be typically for some liability account (e.g. Payroll tax payable).
If that’s by design, then how come you made the comment “It’s already possible to select any P&L account for . . . payslip items” in post #38 which was the point of the comment.
Besides that’s a very limiting view, there are employer / employee payslip items which don’t involve a third party, e.g.:
Renting employer provided accommodation
Business motor vehicle private usage reimbursement
etc. which relate to P&L accounts
Currently, these have to be artificially posted to a Balance Sheet account for subsequent journalising. A duplication in workflow.
You are right. If there are payslip deductions which are “earned” by employer themselves, then you’d have to transfer liability into some income account by journal entry.
The reason I didn’t implement this possibility is that I though it would be quite uncommon and so far there wasn’t a feature request asking for this anyway.
I don’t remember where but this isn’t the first time this discussion has been made in this forum.
This topic has gone very far off course. The first 30 or so posts were a spirited discussion of handling accumulated depreciation via journal entries when dealing with revaluation of fixed assets. That took place in July 2017.
In July 2018, @Abeiku took things in an entirely different direction, discussing fixed asset accounting in not-for-profit organizations. And he threw in a question about including depreciation as a non-inventory cost on production orders.
@lubos mentioned payslips as an example of how flexibility in account selection could be added to the program. The discussion then veered into questions about payslip earnings items being restricted in their posting options.
Now, we are 44 posts into the thread, and I don’t think anyone is sure what is being discussed any more. I’m closing the topic. If someone wants to continue discussion, she or he should start a new topic focused on a single subject.
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