Geting GnuCash to Recognise Localised tax report for UK

Alex Aycinena alex.aycinena at gmail.com
Sat May 24 00:02:15 EDT 2014


>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us>
> To: Herbert Thoma <herbert.thoma at iis.fraunhofer.de>
> Cc: Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU>, "gnucash-devel at gnucash.org" <
> gnucash-devel at gnucash.org>
> Date: Thu, 22 May 2014 08:31:22 -0700
> Subject: Re: Geting GnuCash to Recognise Localised tax report for UK
>
> On 22 May 2014, at 07:26, Herbert Thoma <herbert.thoma at iis.fraunhofer.de>
> wrote:
>
> > Am 22.05.2014 16:11, schrieb Derek Atkins:
> >> Clint Redwood <clint at screwtape.co.uk> writes:
> >>
> >>> Hi Derek,
> >>>
> >>> Good point - but what would your localisation setup be in that case?
> Ideally
> >>> you'd want en_DE, which I presume doesn't usually exist?
> >>
> >> I have no idea what locale I would want.  Most likely I'd have to use
> >> en_UK because, as you suggest, en_DE probably doesn't exist.  (I haven't
> >> actually tested that to be sure, but I would suspect it doesn't exist).
> >
> > Well, that would get you British Pound as default currency. May be you
> > would want en_IE. Then you would get the EURO, as this is the currency in
> > Ireland.
> >
> > But John already proposed a better solution: LANG=en_US and
> LC_MONETARY=de_DE
> >
> > Could it be possible that one has to do tax declarations for multiple
> > countries? If you move? May be then the tax report should not be coupled
> > to a locale at all? Or only the default selection but reports for other
> > countries are somehow available?
>
> Sure. If Derek lived in Germany he'd still have to file US taxes as well
> as German ones unless he renounced his US citizenship. But that would also
> require maintaining separate account-TXF mappings for each tax authority;
> that adds quite a bit of complexity to the change.
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
>
> I think this is the right answer. People are generally subject to multiple
tax jurisdictions at the same time and should be able to select which ever
apply to them (or none) easily.

Alex


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