Automatically split transactions with sales tax or VAT (Value added tax) when a transaction is booked to an sales or value-added-tax related account

[Oliver König]

On Wednesday 15 November 2006 14:59, you wrote:
> Oliver König wrote:
> > Hi Nigel,
> > can I call you on Skype or phone?
>
> Yes, but I'm a little tied up at the moment. My skype name is
> vache-qui-rit, my mobile is +44 7956619345. The best bet is to try
> messaging me through skype and I can let you know if I'm available to talk.
>
> > Regards,
> > Oliver
> >
> > On Wednesday 15 November 2006 13:27, you wrote:
> >>>>> The business features (including Tax Tables) are outside the
> >>>>> scope of the register.  I've been working on adding the hooks
> >>>>> to get callbacks when transactions are entered, but right now
> >>>>> that's still a ways off.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I don't expect that I will ever, personally, implement this feature,
> >>>>> so if you really want it I'd recommend finding a developer that
> >>>>> wants to do it.
> >>>
> >>> Who do yo suggest? Who could be interested in adding the feature? Who
> >>> can we contact?
> >>>
> >>> If you want to I can ask more businesses and tax accountants what they
> >>> think about this feature.
> >>
> >> I understand Derek's point of view 100%. He has no need of the feature,
> >> his resources (and those of the other active developers) are limited,
> >> and they will in general work on what they feel to be of use to them. To
> >> a certain extent, those of us using gnucash to run businesses rather
> >> then to handle personal finances are out on a limb. If ease of use and
> >> functionality were the only criteria then I should be using Sage or
> >> QuickBooks. However, I have a dogged and somewhat fanatical belief in
> >> the Open Source model, and a hatred of Microsoft that goes, possibly,
> >> beyond the reasonable. This is why I use open source software to run my
> >> business and my life, and why I have persisted with Gnucash for many
> >> years. I have tremendous respect for Derek and the other developers and
> >> give daily thanks for the unpaid work they have put in to make Gnucash
> >> what it is.
> >>
> >> One of these days, when I'm not spending 3 hours a day commuting,
> >> working 8 hours a day at my day job and then coming home to run an
> >> ecommerce company in the evening, I'll try and put some development time
> >> into Gnucash.

Hello Nigel,
do you have any plans to implement the feature as requested at
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=364378  ?

I do not program in C and I do not know how to programm code for Gnucash but 
we could make a donation if that helps or motivates somebody to implement the 
feature.

On the one hand we would want to honor / reward the work for implementing the 
feature and on the other hand (economically) it would still be a lot cheaper 
to spend some money for having this feature in Gnucash than to switch back to 
a Windows based accounting software that offers all these features and redo 
all the accounting work.

Regards,

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Oliver König

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