In my mind the easiest solution is still, to add a checkbox beside the items that you want to apply the discount to. This makes the taxable/non taxable issue easier to manage. All you have to do is select the items you want to discount, no matter where they live on an invoice, and discount them accordingly.

Who knows? Maybe one day they will see it our way.

Any discount line always messes up, no matter if I use “subtotal” (the other suggestion you always see) or not.

No wonder my Tax has always wrong when submitting Quarterly Sales Tax.

Ridiculous that you can’t even find a straight answer in QB help.

Another reason not to buy this software again. They are so disconnected from actual retail environment it’s sad.

I would look at help and google and it was always figuring the wrong amount of tax.

I use the same logic you do and am used to more powerful POS systems in our Hardware store that just “work” without having to someone’s “work-around”

Thank you. I finally understand why it works only half the time the way I want it to . I have been pulling my hair out forever.