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Rule based on Category not just merchant

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Hi I would like to be able to make a rule that you can apply a certain rule to a specific category regardless of the Merchant. Thus, say the category is fuel then you make a rule that Tax is 0 for all fuel purchases regardless of where it was purchased.
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This is definitely something that is needed.
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0 · Accept Answer Off Topic Insightful Vote Up Awesome@PC_Pretorius_375 - don't forget to vote for your own idea!
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0 · Accept Answer Off Topic Insightful Vote Up AwesomeHi @MartinB and @PC_Pretorius_375 don't forget to vote the idea up if you haven't already!
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0 · Accept Answer Off Topic Insightful Vote Up AwesomeI like the idea, I know that there have been a few other comments and ideas related to rules (specifically policy wide rules).
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0 · Accept Answer Off Topic Insightful Vote Up AwesomeHi @PC_Pretorius_375 I would also like to see this functionality and posted the idea today as well so I'm definetly voting this up!
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0 · Accept Answer Off Topic Insightful Vote Up AwesomeHi,
That would be very helpful here as well.
By law, in France, and probably in other EU countries, on some expenses, you cannot deduct VAT. Those expenses can be clearly identified by category.
When liked with Xero, would it be possible to improve Expensify so we can specify per account (category), if VAT must be specified or if it must be considered as Tax Exempt straight away?
Thank you
Regards,
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0 · Accept Answer Off Topic Insightful Vote Up AwesomeWe have released this feature! Please check out this Product Update post for more details https://community.expensify.com/discussion/5192/category-tax#latest
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0 · Accept Answer Off Topic Insightful Vote Up AwesomeHi, the status of this idea should be changed. While the product update might fill the need described as the example, there is a number of users who still want and need 'Category' based rules. This only addresses a very unique tax need.
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0 · Accept Answer Off Topic Insightful Vote Up AwesomeThanks for your note, @Julia! Just to make sure we're on the same page, there are various rules that can be added to specific categories. You can read about those here. Could you tell me specifically what's missing from that feature that would be useful to you?
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0 · Accept Answer Off Topic Insightful Vote Up Awesome