State of the GnuCash project: A call for help

[Linas Vepstas]

On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 12:28:09AM -0400, Derek Atkins was heard to remark:
> "Carl B. Constantine" <duckwing at duckwing.ca> writes:
> > have dual taxes (Alberta being the main exception). The federal
> > Government Services Tax (G.S.T.) and then provincial sales tax (P.S.T.).
> 
> Sure there is, you create a Tax Table called "Alberta" which has two
> entries, one entry for the Alberta PST and another entry of the Federal
> GST.  Make sure you have two Tax witholding accounts (one for PST, one for
> GST).   Your "double-taxed" items can use the "combined" tax table, and
> on the invoice just on the "Individual Taxes" feature.

You know how we have xea's for initial account setup?  Maybe its
time we got an equivalent for taxes.   However, because there
are far, far more taxes, and these change year to year, it would
be a maintanance nightmare unless we found some way to auto-post to web,
autoupdate from web.   a druid that went to the website to get today's
list ... and a wiki-like place for users to post new tax tables ... 


--linas


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