[Feature Request] Tax/Vat Field

[c33s]

testing myexpenses i soon got to the point that i want to buy the extended license. this is really a very good app.

as a freelancer who is not an accounting enthusiast, i wanted to try to optimize the accounting work load by using an expense tracking app like yours. recording all the invoices immediately when i buy something would more than helpful.

unfortunately the app doesn't offer a field where i can track the vat/tax. without this field, i would have to go through all the bills again to record the tax information after importing it to my desktop app / libre office calc.
having an option to in the settings like "[ ] track tax" (so it would not confuse private user), "configure tax table" and the addition of a dropdown of this taxes in the new transaction user interface would be awesome.

looking at the quicken format, i saw that it would allow to track such tax information:

X 	Extended data for Quicken Business. Followed by a second character subcode (see below) followed by content data. 	Invoices 	XI3
XC 	Tax account 	Invoices 	XC[*Sales Tax*]
XR 	Tax rate 	Invoices 	XR7.70
XT 	Tax amount 	Invoices 	XT15.40

i haven't tested if it can be easily imported into a normal/personal accounting app like gnucash. gnucash itself would allow to create incomming business invoices (but the interface is rather cumbersome). it is necessary to provide a tax account.

[c33s]

any chance to get this feature? it is just one more field :(

[mtotschnig]

Interestingly this ticket got a considerable number of reactions here, but is not equivalently upvoted on the Roadmap Vote. @c33s et al. Could you cast your vote for this ticket ("Roadmap Vote" from the app's settings) to increase its prioritiy?
I think it is more than just one field though, because I suppose net/gross amounts will need to be handled throughout the app ...

[c33s]

sadly i can't. for me a finance app must not connect to the internet so it is firewalled on my phone. in 2017 i started to use the app and bought a license key to say "thank you". also i opended this ticket and also wrote you an email about that (02.08.2017).

as no support for the tax field was implemented i stopped using the app as it was not useful for me to track my expenses without being able to track the tax.

on time i tried to restart using it and looked to find a workaround but as you changed the possibility to activate the app offline i stopped again (i also wrote you about that (05.12.2018). i don't know if you still require online activation, if yes i would still ask for a offline activation feature.

for simple tracking purposes it would be enough to add a field with the tax value. of course it would be cool if your app fully support taxes but as intermediate feature it could be enough to allow to save a tax value to an expense and add this field to the export. so i could import it in my finance ods and calculate the rest there. one step further would be to also add the net field and also add it to the export. so it might not be required to handle this fields through the whole app but still allow to track and export the data.

[mtotschnig]

@c33s Couldn't you allow the app to contact licencedb.myexpenses.mobi and roadmap.myexpenses.mobi just while you activate the licence or cast your vote?