totals concepts and their meaning in the invoices:
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base                    the base amount. (sum over the items of qty*ucost)
discount                the summed (base*discount/100) specified for each item
net                     the summed (base amount - discount) per item
taxes                   the summed taxes applied after the discount (taxes*net/100)
gross                   the summed amount, taxes included (net + taxes)