IQ-POS by design has the ability to manage up to three taxes in the normal way of doing things. Occasionaly, however, there may be a need for additional tax codes.
In this instance. we need for an additional 12.5% tax for Gift Shop Items. The workaround is to go to Maintenance -> Items and Inventory and create a Non-Stock inventory item called TAX. If you need to add more than one additional new tax, you can lable them TAX1, TAX2, etc.
On the Pricing/Costing tab, set the pricing method to be Total Percent and the amount for the apprpriate tax rate. In this case I entered 0.125 (for 12.5%).
Ten percent would be 0.10, fifteen percentwould be 0.15, etc.
As mentioned in the screenshot below, only use the other tax accounts if they also apply to the items in question.
Operationally, the tax must be added manually at the end of the bill. All items must be added first and then the tax applied by typing the tax id (tax, tax1, tax2 etc) in the lookup box as shown below. Alternatively, the tax can assigned to one of the Quick Keys for the outlet in question as indicated by the red arrow.
When the user presses the Enter key or click on the relevant Quick Key the result is a shown below. Notice the tax is not shown in the bottom section.
The receipt looks like this:
You can always remove the Tip and Total Amount Line if they do not apply to the outlet in question.
An important note: If there are any changes to the bill after the tax is added, the tax item should be removed and added again, otherwise the amount will be calculated incorrectly. Just to re-emphasize, the TAX item must be the last item added to the bill.