GnuCash 2.4.10 released - How to get updated US Tax Info

[Alex Aycinena]

Yes - it's included in 2.4.10. If you download 2.4.10 for Mac or
Windows, it's included.

On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 4:49 PM, David T. <sunfish62 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Alex--
>
> Sorry to be dense, but I want to be entirely clear here: GnuCash users who
> download an executable package for GnuCash (that is, most Mac and Windows
> users) will have these tax updates by default?
>
> TIA,
> David
>
> ________________________________
> From: Alex Aycinena <alex.aycinena at gmail.com>
> To: gnucash-devel at gnucash.org; gnucash-user at gnucash.org;
> gnucash-announce at gnucash.org
> Sent: Tuesday, February 7, 2012 4:12 PM
> Subject: Re: GnuCash 2.4.10 released - How to get updated US Tax Info
>
> As Christian mentions in his 2.4.10 announcement, below, this release
> contains updates that "reflect changes to US Income Tax Forms and
> Schedules for 2011". These are not extremely significant changes but
> if you are subject to US Income Tax reporting requirements and use
> gnucash to aid in preparing your US tax returns, you should upgrade so
> that your Tax Report reflects these latest updates.
>
> If you are using Windows or a Mac, the announcement tells you where to
> get the update.
>
> If you are using another operating system (Linux, etc.), the easiest
> way to get the update is to wait until it becomes available through
> your normal package distribution mechanism. But sometimes there can be
> significant delays between the gnucash release and its availability
> through these normal distribution channels. And since tax time in the
> US is upon us now, there is a way that you may be able to get just the
> US Tax updates into your existing gnucash installation before the
> 2.4.10 release is available to you, if certain prerequisites apply to
> your installation. See the instructions that follow Christian's
> announcement:
>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Christian Stimming <christian at cstimming.de>
>> To: gnucash-devel at gnucash.org, gnucash-user at gnucash.org,
>> gnucash-announce at gnucash.org
>> Cc:
>> Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:16:44 +0100
>> Subject: GnuCash 2.4.10 released
>> GnuCash 2.4.10 released
>>
>> The GnuCash development team proudly announces GnuCash 2.4.10, the ninth
>> bug
>> fix release in a series of stable of the GnuCash Free Accounting Software.
>> With this release series, GnuCash can use an SQL database using SQLite3,
>> MySQL
>> or PostgreSQL. It runs on GNU/Linux, *BSD, Solaris, Microsoft Windows and
>> Mac
>> OSX.
>>
>>
>> Getting GnuCash for Windows (Win32 binary)
>>
>> The Gnucash 2.4.10 Win32 setup executable
>>
>> http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gnucash/gnucash-2.4.10-setup.exe
>> can be downloaded from Sourceforge. It will install everything needed to
>> run
>> GnuCash.
>>
>>
>> Mac OSX binary
>>
>> The Gnucash 2.4.10 MacOSX package
>>
>> http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gnucash/Gnucash-Intel-2.4.10.dmg
>> can be downloaded from Sourceforge as well.
>>
>>
>> Getting GnuCash as source code
>>
>> If you want to compile GnuCash 2.4.10 for yourself, the source code can be
>> downloaded from:
>>
>>    Sourceforge:
>>
>> http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gnucash/gnucash-2.4.10.tar.bz2
>>
>> To compile GnuCash from the source code by yourself, you will need Gnome
>> 2,
>> guile, slib. In addition you will need swig if compiling from subversion.
>>
>>
>> Changes
>>
>> Between 2.4.9 and 2.4.10, the following bugfixes were included:
>>
>
> (deleted)
>
>>    Update txf.scm in stable branch to reflect changes to US Income Tax
>> Forms
>
> (deleted)
>
>>
>
> To upgrade the US Income Tax information on an existing gnucash
> installation:
>
> Prerequisites: You must have at least 2.3.8, or later, installed for
> the following to work. If not, THIS WON'T WORK, so don't do it. (If
> you can't upgrade using your distribution's package manager to at
> least this level, your only choice is to build from source.) You also
> must have administrative/root privileges on your system.
>
> 1. Determine where gnucash files are installed on your system,
> specifically the file: 'txf.scm'. For example, on my Fedora system, it
> is located in '/usr/share/gnucash/scm/' and is owned by 'root'. The
> location may be different for your distribution.
>
> 2. Exit gnucash if it is running. As 'root', locate and change the
> name of the existing 'txf.scm' file to 'txf.scm.orig' noting its
> ownership and permissions (su -; cd /usr/share/gnucash/scm; ls -al;
> rename txf.scm txf.scm.orig. txf.scm; ls -al).
>
> 3. As your regular user, with your internet browser, go to
> 'http://svn.gnucash.org/repo/gnucash/tags/2.4.10/src/tax/us/' and
> right-click on and save 'txf.scm' somewhere (e.g.:
> /home/user-name/Downloads).
>
> 4. As 'root', move the downloaded 'txf.scm' file to the location where
> 'txf.scm.orig' is located and make sure its ownership and permissions
> are the same as the original file (mv
> /home/user-name/Downloads/txf.scm /usr/share/gnucash/scm/txf.scm; ls
> -al; chown root:root /usr/share/gnucash/scm/txf.scm; ls -al; chmod g-w
> /usr/share/gnucash/scm/txf.scm; ls -al).
>
> 5. Restart gnucash and confirm that the new file is being used
> properly by selecting Edit->Tax Report Options and confirming that the
> dialog works properly. Specifically, test it by temporarily setting
> Tax Type as 'Individual, ...' if it is not that already, selecting
> 'Income' for 'Accounts', selecting some random income account, if it
> is not already selected as 'Tax Related', do so, scrolling down to
> 'Sched D Short/Long gain or loss' and selecting it, then scrolling the
> lower area to see the 'Form Line Data' and if it says '2011 - now
> 1,2, or 3 via ...' everything is fine. Click 'Cancel' so that no
> changes are made to your data from the test.
>
> Note that if you have any difficulties you can exit gnucash, delete
> the downloaded 'txf.scm', rename 'txf.scm.orig' back to the way it was
> before and restart gnucash to be back where you were.
>
> Also, if you do any upgrades to your existing installation after these
> steps to a release that is less than 2.4.10 (say, for example, from
> 2.4.4 to 2.4.9), you will have to redo these steps.
>
> Finally, I'll comment that although I reference Fedora above just
> because that happens to be the distribution I use, my experience is
> that the Fedora gnucash package maintainer is very timely in releasing
> updates so that if you use Fedora, you probably won't have to do this.
>
> Alex Aycinena
>
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