Tax Report Options only for US declarations?

[Alex Aycinena]

Carsten,

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> From: casi <casi at maanreri.de>
> To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
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> Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2012 17:51:50 +0200
> Subject: Tax Report Options only for US declarations?
> Hi,
>
> I just had a look whether I could make use of the "Tax Report Options"
> feature for my personal tax declaration.
>
> As I am not a US citizen I quickly get lost in english tax terms that I
> do not really understand when looking at the help pages.
> Before I start digging into corresponding dictionaries, just a quick
> question to this forum:
>
> Is my understanding correct that this feature currently is customized
> for the US?
>
> Regards,
> Carsten
>

You are correct that 'Tax Report Options' in the standard distribution
only applies to US Income Tax returns. There is an experimental German
tax capability but I don't believe it is generally available - you
have to compile the software with an '--enable-locale-specific-tax'
option so that if your locale is DE, you get a German version rather
than the US version (I'm not sure if it is current or functional). No
one has volunteered to implement and maintain it for any other
countries; it is not a trivial undertaking.

Regards,

Alex