Taxes

Support Added for Australia Goods and Services Tax (GST) Requirements

Simphony now adheres to Australian Goods and Services Tax (GST) requirements, allowing you to configure, display, print invoices, and generate reports in accordance with the law. The Australia GST represents a single, inclusive tax rate of 10% which affects menu items (such as regular menu items, priced condiments, and priced combos) in the following manner:

• Menu items sold and consumed on-premises (dining in). In instances of take-away, there are GST-free menu items (such as bottled water), on which the Australia GST applies when sold and consumed on-premises.

• Menu items with no active tax-rate assigned to them need to be handled as GST-free. Menu items sold with a zero percent rate can also be handled as GST-free.

See the Oracle MICROS Simphony Configuration Guide—specifically the Configuring Options for Australia GST Requirements topic—for more information.

Support Added for Overriding Taxes for Menu Items with an Assigned Quantity

The addition of a Quantity field to the Menu Item (MI) Definition module enhances the Menu Item Tax Class Override feature. For some menu items, you might want to assign a quantity (greater than one) to a single MI Definition record. For example, you could have one MI Definition record for ½ Dozen Donuts (whose Quantity setting is 6).

Using the MI Definition Quantity field to contribute (or add to) to the Menu Item Group module’s Threshold Quantity value, after the Threshold Quantity setting has been reached or exceeded, the system is triggered to perform an override of the previously applied tax class setting.

For example, if a workstation operator adds ½ Dozen Donuts (whose Quantity setting is 6), and then adds one more menu item (that is a member of the same Menu Item Group as the ½ Dozen Donuts), the previous tax class setting is overridden by the tax class assigned to this Menu Item Group record. The tax override is triggered by reaching or exceeding the Menu Item Group module’s Threshold Quantity setting (which is set to 7 for this example).

• The default value for the MI Definition Quantity field is 1. The MI Definition Quantity field does not support entering a 0 or a negative value.

• This feature’s configuration also applies to both Split Check and to Seat Filtering check handling functions.

• The MI Definition Quantity field value is included when performing data imports or exports.

See the Oracle MICROS Simphony Configuration Guide, specifically the Configuring the Menu Item Tax Class Override topic, for more information.