Adding a Payroll calculator

[Andrew Sackville-West]

Jay Scherrer wrote:
> << snippetty doo dah >>
> 
> Right on target. I my self don't know yet how GnuCash stores the
> information into each account. But it would be nice if there was a form
> to fill out while performing payroll that resembled a time clock or
> pay-stub format (Once hours were entered all the calculations are
> preformed).
> Of course the other options would include strait salaries and
> commissions. But these would be definable at the time of employee
> Creation/Hire.
> 
> There are two major occurrences of payroll calculation. 
> 1: performing the actual paycheck calculation.
> 2: Then reporting the totals for the quarterly tax return. 

FOr my own purposes, I accumulate tax liabilities throughout the period 
and with a couple of reports can determine both my outstanding tax 
liabilities and labor expenses (used to calculate FICA, and MCare, among 
others. WHat I can't get is units of work (hours in this case) and there 
would have to be some method of recording that as some taxes are $x.xx 
per hour as opposed to a percentage.
> 
> Payroll taxes could be members of the Tax class and still be different
> from regular sales and income taxes. However Payroll taxes for the us
> will be accounted on a quarterly basis with the IRS form 941. 
> I myself am very rusty on c but here's a shot. And I haven't the
> experience with any GUI's except Perl::Tk and html.
> 
> I have used Derek Atkins's _gncEmployee class as a template for this
> Example: 
> 
> struct _gncTax 
> {
>   char *          id; 
>   char *          taxName;   /* Medicare, SSI, Sales,..etc */
>   char *          taxType;   /* Payroll, Payroll, Sales  */
>   char *          taxCatagory;/* Employee, Salary, Sale */
>   gnc_numeric     taxRate;   /* .0145, .062, .893 */
>   gnc_numeric     taxFrequency; /* hourly, monthly, unit */ 

is this -----------^ used to store what unit the tax is calculated on or 
how often the tax is accumulated? IOW where do you store information as 
what the tax is applied to?

>   gnc_commodity * currency;     
>   gboolean        active;
>   char *          language;
>   Account *       tax_acc;     
> };
> 
> 
> Jay Scherrer
> 
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