Book writeoffs with tax

When booking a writeoff, you always have to consider to return the tax amount as well.

Important: This guide is only for you if you are required to submit your taxes.

Part write off

In this scenario, we only book a part of a writeoff.

Lets say we have the following in our ledger for an invoice of CHF 200.-

Now the customer is only willing to pay half of the invoice, that means we have to write off half the invoice into the loss and return of tax.

For this you can either create a reverse journal entry or a payment with the deduction, which would be the easier and more transparent