Tax report for Canada

[Damon]

Hello -

I'm a Canadian citizen running a small business with income in both CAD
and USD currencies, and all other transactions in CAD.  I use gnucash
for all my personal and business accounting; i'm not however using any
of the advanced business features - i have my own system for invoicing
&c - just using it to track both business and personal income and
expenses.

The account structure i settled on long ago has four top-level accounts
for personal income, expenses, assets and liabilities, a corresponding
four top-level accounts for business, separate top-level accounts for
GST-related income and expense, a couple of top-level accounts to track
my mortgage separately, and finally an equity account for opening
balances.  I'm not sure how technically `correct' it is but it's worked
nicely for me.

In almost all trees there are tax-related accounts, and i have each one
(along with all "placeholder" parent accounts) marked as "Tax Related"
in the tax options dialogue, with the blank form "Tax Report Only - No
TXF Export" selected.

In gnucash-2.2 i was able to use the "Tax Report & TXF Export" report at
tax time to get a nice summary of all my taxable income and claimable
expenses, both personal and business.  The tax report was obviously
geared towards the US tax system, but it was flexible enough to show me
summaries of all tax-related accounts in their own currencies for the
selected period.

There was always a bit of weirdness with the USD income accounts (parent
accounts missing from the report), but the total was still displayed
properly so i could use the report come tax time.  It also seemed to be
honouring my primary currency setting as the CAD accounts were all
treated properly, and the only, minor, bugginess was in the USD
accounts.

Since upgrading to gnucash-2.4, the tax report has become completely
useless for me:

- It seems to ignore *most* accounts in CAD.  It shows my USD business
income accounts just fine, and for some reason it shows my entire "GST
expenses" account tree (which is in CAD), but it doesn't show any other
accounts in CAD.

- For the few CAD accounts it does show, it shows their values converted
to USD via the price editor data, instead of showing everything in the
configured account currency.

- Instead of a nice summary for each tax-related account, it shows a
detailed list of transactions; which would be fine, if it worked
otherwise, but a lot less convenient than the old summary view.

I've been unable to see any real logic in which CAD accounts are
selected for display.  The only thing i've noticed that may have some
relevance is that the one CAD account tree that is shown is the
top-level account sorted last in my register that is tax-related.  There
is one more account below it but that one is not tax-related.  So it
almost looks as though as the program travels down the register, it
might be replacing each CAD top-level account tree with the next until
it comes to the last one?

When i look at the setup in the "Edit - Tax Options" dialogue, all of
the accounts seem to be set up the same way as before, with "Tax
Related" checked and the blank form (code 000) "Tax Report Only - No TXF
Export" selected.  In the new "identity" section my Type defaulted to
"Individual, Joint, etc"; changing that has no effect.

It seems as though the good functionality from 2.2 was accidental, and
now the tax report has been refined for US users but made useless for
everyone else.  I'm guessing that i was using the tax report in a way
that was not intended in 2.2 but just happened to work nicely for my
needs.

Am i missing something obvious about how to set up tax-related accounts
and still get a report that's useful for a Canadian user?  Is there any
way to access the tax report as it existed in gnucash-2.2?  Any other
suggestions from Canadian or other non-US gnucash users?

I've been trying out gnucash-2.4 and liking it, but for now, i have to
downgrade to 2.2 each time i need a tax report.  I'm just glad the file
formats are compatible!

Thank you for any help!

-damon