AW: AW: 2.3.15/tax package: basic questions

[Jannick Asmus]

Derek Atkins wrote:
> "Jannick Asmus" <jannick.news at gmail.com> writes:
>
>>> I'm not sure what you mean by exporting to sql.
>>
>> Let me clarify: The latest (unstable) versions export the gnucash
>> file to an sql to have it as a database. In this kind of export the
>> tax attributes associated to accounts are not exported.
>
> By "exported" I suspect you mean "saved as"...   If Save-As to a SQL
> DB does not save the tax attributes, that's a bug that should be
> reported and fixed.

Your suspicion is correct. ... bug filed: 
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=627393

> Note that this is one of many reasons why 2.3.x series are not
> recommended for real data, and why the SQL backends are still
> considered experimental and not production.

I know. Thx for the warning.

BTW: I installed 2.3.15 into a folder of c.\programs, but different to 
the 2.2.9 folder, but then 2.2.9 did not work any more. So I learnt that 
I couldn't have them simultaneously on my machine. I am just testing. 
Soon I'll go back to 2.2.9 I think.

> [snip]
>>> As it stands now, the Tax Report and the assignments of tax codes to
>>> accounts that is done through Edit->Tax Options is only applicable
>>> to US Income taxes which must be filed in USD (which is why the tax
>>> report is USD by default and cannot be changed). The only exception
>>> is if your locale is de_DE,
>>
>> ... it is de_DE
>>
>>> you can get a German version which I believe
>>
>> ... no, I can't :( This is why I am posting this.
>
> You can if you --enable-locale-specific-tax during configure when you
> compile GnuCash.  Did you do that?
>
>>> is something of a prototype (not fully functional?) if the software
>>> is built in a certain way.
>>
>> I installed it on WinVista with the .exe-file someone nice built from
>> source. Building is far beyond of my skills. So what I am having on
>> my machine after installing 2.3.15 is a well built current version.
>
> Which probably did NOT enable locale-specific tax, which is why you
> don't see the de_DE version.  See above.

Ah, that sounds logical. I think I could fiddle around by replacing the 
two files for the US tax codes in the c:\programs folder in order to get 
the German tax codes files running. If someone out there knows this will 
not work for some reason, then a hint is much appreciated!

> -derek

/J.