GIFI Tax TXF Categories for Canada

[John Ralls]

On May 18, 2012, at 2:34 PM, bunk3m wrote:

> Hi.
> 
> I'm in the process of finishing tax returns for my company.  This is the
> first year of using Gnucash.
> 
> I would like to investigate how difficult it would be to add/create a
> similar set of tax codes to the US ones provided.  In Canada that would
> be the GIFI codes.
> 
> ---Quote Oct 31---
> The current implementation is US-specific.  Nobody has defined a tax
> mapping for other locales.  Take a look in src/report/locale-specific/
> and you'll see us/taxtxf.scm -- nobody has defined a taxtxf.scm for
> other locales.
> 
> -derek
> ---end quote---
> 
> I've been looking for these scm forms within the Gnucash package without
> any luck.  I'm probably completely confused and stupid when it comes to
> what I should do, but I'm trying to figure it out.
> 
> Can someone tell me where the US codes are found on the Mac
> implementation so I can find the files and look at them?  If they don't
> look to complicated, I'll try to transfer the GIFI codes into a similar
> format.
> 
> I'd appreciate some guidance on what to read to learn how to do this and
> then I'll give it a whirl.
> 
> I'm on Digest-Mode so please CC me on any reply.

Is 
Gnucash.app/Contents/Resources//share/gnucash/scm/txf.scm
what you're looking for?

Regards,
John Ralls