Tax Payable Account Problem

[Abeiku]

Tax amounts do not appear on the balance sheet if accounts are not selected for tax lines in tax codes

When accounts are selected for tax lines.

When Accounts are not selected for tax lines

You can see from the second screenshot that the balance sheet is out of balance by 160.

@lubos Why don’t you replace the Ineffective tax payable account with the Suspense account?

Version 21.11.56, Cloud Edition

[sharpdrivetek]

@Abeiku

Why don’t you replace the Ineffective tax payable account with the Suspense account?

this was explained in the below post.

Sales amount difference

It’s not as simple. Tax payable account is kind of a weird case. Basically, let’s call all these built-in accounts as conditional accounts. They only appear if certain conditions are met. I do not want conditional accounts to have ability to have starting balances. This is because if you set starting balance on conditional account and sometime in future conditions for that account to exist are no longer met, it must disappear from your chart of accounts automatically. But if it disappears wh…

[Abeiku]

I see, but this is a problem and must be considered as a bug until a solution is provided.
The “Tax payable” account could be renamed to ‘Select a liability Account’ to prompt users to create and select an account there.

[lubos]

I’m not able to reproduce this issue though. Could you attach test Manager file?

[Abeiku]

Test Business (2021-12-03).manager (188 KB)

Attached.

[lubos]

Thanks. Fixed in the latest version (21.11.58)