Could you help on some uncleared strings during my translations?

[Tao Wang]

Now it's very clear to me. I think we might have official code for
each item(or line) in our country, maybe we can use it as a reference,
I'm not sure. But, anyway, I understand it very clear, it help me a
lot. Thanks all of you.

On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 5:12 AM, J. Alex Aycinena
<alex.aycinena at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Tao Wang,
>
> Please see my comments below:
>
>> From: Dancefire <dancefire at gmail.com>
>> To: "J. Alex Aycinena" <alex.aycinena at gmail.com>
>> Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 13:00:44 +1000
>> Subject: Re: Could you help on some uncleared strings during my translations?
>> On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 5:22 AM, J. Alex Aycinena
>> <alex.aycinena at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> See comments, below:
>>>
>>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>>> From: Christian Stimming <stimming at tuhh.de>
>>>> To: Dancefire <dancefire at gmail.com>
>>>> Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 11:18:50 +0200
>>>> Subject: Re: Could you help on some uncleared strings during my translations?
>>>> I'll answer the rest:
>>>>
>>>> Zitat von Dancefire <dancefire at gmail.com>:
>>>>>
>>>>> 1)
>>>>> #: ../src/gnome/dialog-tax-info.c:281
>>>>> msgid "Form Line Data: "
>>>>>
>>>>> What's meaning of that?
>>>>
>>>> The source code location suggests this is related to the mapping of gnucash accounts to the tax-related paperwork. I think this string means "The line in your tax forms [i.e. the paper form with the official number e.g. foo-123] to which this account belongs to."
>>>>
>>>
>>> This is essentially correct. For the US Income Tax support in gnucash,
>>> each tax code that can be assigned to an account generally corresponds
>>> to a specific line number on a paper form and each form has a unique
>>> identification (e.g., Form 1040, Schedule A). However, the line number
>>> on a given form tends to vary from year to year. To make it easy to
>>> map a users gnucash data to US Income Tax forms, the US Income Tax
>>> Report sorts and totals the amounts by line number within tax form.
>>> The system has, and displays on the Tax Information Dialog, the data
>>> showing for each year what form and line number on that form a given
>>> tax code is associated with - the heading on the dialog for this block
>>> of displayed data is "Form Line Data". This data is displayed so that
>>> when a user is doing the tax code assignment to an account, it can be
>>> referenced to help understand what the tax code refers to.
>>>
>>
>> I may misunderstand for the word "line number". Is it same as the line
>> number in "there are 4000 lines in the main.cpp file, to view it
>> clearly, you should show the Line Number on left side."?
>> Should I translate the "Form Line Data" as "Form Number Data" or "Form
>> Code Data"? I think "Form 1040" is a form number, rather than form
>> line number. Or that means the form contains 1040 lines of words?
>>
>
> Yes, I can see the source of the confusion with what I said - sorry
> about that. "Form 1040" is the name the US government gives to the tax
> form. A different tax form may be called, for example, "Schedule A
> (Form 1040)". There are many of these. Each of these forms has
> multiple lines on them, each of which would correspond to one or more
> tax codes listed in gnucash in the Tax Options Dialog. Each tax code
> listed there could be assigned to one or more accounts.
>
> Perhaps looking at one would help? I have attached a pdf of a tax form
> called "Schedule A" (ignore the first page of the pdf - look at page
> 2). You will see that, for tax year 2009, line 16 is "Gifts by cash or
> check". In tax year 2006, this same item, "Gifts by cash or check",
> was line 15 on that year's version of the form.
>
> So the phrase "Form Line Data" is a heading displayed above the listed
> data showing year ranges and line numbers on the Tax Options Dialog
> and means: "Data about the Line numbers on Tax Forms". On the screen,
> for the tax code with the description "Gifts by cash or check", it
> looks like this:
>
> Form Line Data:
> 2007 - now 16
> 1994 - 2006 15
> 1991 - 1993 13
> etc.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
>>>
>>> Alex
>>>
>>
>> Thank all of you so much for your help.
>>
>
> On the contrary - thank you for the translation and the attention to detail.
>
>> --
>> Regards
>>
>> Tao Wang
>
> Regards,
>
> Alex
>



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Regards

Tao Wang