Sales tax in W1 vs US

NavStudent wrote:

Well I was just looking at sales tax and how it posts in US version. Basically it creates a gen. journal with amount = 0, and VAT Amount = (7 %) tax amount

This is really not a proper way to write the software. They should have a VAT/TAX Journal that should be posted, which will make the necessary GL entries. Not the other way around.

My question is why didn't they create a VAT Journal table, Just like Job journal.
If you look at CU 12, code is just horrible the way it decides to make VAT/TAX Entries from a gen. journal.

My 2 cents.

In the early days of Navision, it was only released in countries that supported VAT. When it was eventually released in the US, they basically removed VAT, and wrote a whole new tax process. This became a porblem supporting two fundamentally differnent code bases to support taxing. Then came along countries like Canda and Australia that have both VAT and Sales tax. And the problem got really complex. So they then sat down and worked a way to support VAT and Sales tax in one DB at the same time AND make it easy to do upgrades.

Yes its not perfect, and there were versions of Navision where it was a big problem, but the key factor is that its straight forward to follow the upgrade path, and Navision have allways been very storng on supporting their installed customer base.

I agree that a seperate tax processing unit would be great, (imagine what it was like when we didn't even have Tax posting groups, and had to do it as a part of General Posting groups). But at this stage, I can not see it changing. Untill we start moving to the common code base. There are just too many more important priorities.