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JRS Release Notes – February 2021
Target Audience: JRS Users
We have completed converting all of the identified items from eThority to JasperReports Server (JRS). Thank you for your efforts in converting and bringing to our attention enhancements that could be incorporated to make JRS more useful in your daily work. Here are the updates since the last newsletter:
- Added new payment related domains for the Disbursement Voucher Detail and PREQ with Line Item Detail
- Added a new domain for Open Commitment Detail. Additionally, there is a new ad hoc view “Open Commitment Status – Ad Hoc” in the GL folder that displays the fields from the global “Open Commitment Status by FO Code” report and the KFS Open Encumbrances lookup. Users can use this ad hoc view to customize the query by adding/removing fields and filters and saving it in their FO folder.
- Added fields to the AR Consolidated domain (Agency related fields, Fund Group and Sub Fund Group)
If you have any questions or suggestions to improve the data and/or reports in JRS, please contact the Fiscal Services Office at fissrv@hawaii.edu.
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Revisiting Payments of General Excise Taxes
Target Audience: Fiscal Administrators and Staff
General excise tax is a tax passed on to purchasers, which is ultimately paid by vendors to the State of Hawaii. Whenever fiscal administrators and staff process payments to vendors, we should be aware of whether general excise taxes are correctly assessed to UH.
As mentioned previously in past newsletters, if vendors are not licensed to do business in Hawaii (with no general excise tax license number) then UH should not pay any general excise tax charged by them. Paying for an incorrect assessment of general excise tax will only add to the unlicensed vendor’s profits since they aren’t remitting the tax collected to the State of Hawaii.
As always, if you have any questions, please call me or email me at kenlum@hawaii.edu.