GIFI Tax TXF Categories for Canada

[bunk3m]

Thank you, John.

I had a look at the file.  What type of file is an scm?

Is there a description somewhere that can help me to understand the
structure and how the file is organized?

Regards,
B.

On 19.05.2012 10:29 , John Ralls wrote:
> 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
>
>