GIFI Tax TXF Categories for Canada

George Lobay george at lobay.ca
Tue May 22 19:45:35 EDT 2012


The complete listing of GIFI codes are at the Canada Revenue Agency web 
site here:
http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/E/pub/tg/rc4088/rc4088-e.html

On 21/05/2012 8:26 PM, bunk3m wrote:
>     Cool!  Thanks, Phil.
>     I'll get working on the GIFI extract.  I haven't quite figured out the
>     fields that are needed.  If you have a field listing that would help me
>     a lot.
>     BTW, is there a format that makes it easiest to implement?  I thought
>     pipe delimited text file??
>     Cheers!
>     B.
>     On 21.05.2012 12:38 , Phil Longstaff wrote:
>
>     If you can provide the list of GIFI codes, I can implement them.
>     Phil
>       __________________________________________________________________
>
>     From: bunk3m [1]<bunk3m at gmail.com>
>     To: Derek Atkins [2]<warlord at MIT.EDU>
>     Cc: [3]gnucash-user at gnucash.org
>     Sent: Monday, May 21, 2012 12:28:18 PM
>     Subject: Re: GIFI Tax TXF Categories for Canada
>     Hmmm.
>     I thought this might just need someone to do the manual data entry to
>     create/duplicate and then change an existing file to add these other
>     tax
>     codes.  :-(
>     I haven't programming for 25+ years.  I don't think I'll be able to
>     learn Guile and then C to make whatever changes anytime soon.
>     If someone knows these and can help, I can create the files that
>     outline
>     the GIFI codes&  descriptions.
>     I'll continue to putter around looking at this in my spare time.  If
>     there is someone out there who can do the Guile&  C programming, I'm
>     ready and willing to help.
>     Thanks for the help and descriptions.
>     B
>     On 21.05.2012 10:18 , Derek Atkins wrote:
>     >  John Ralls<[4]jralls at ceridwen.us>  writes:
>     >
>     >>  On May 19, 2012, at 11:51 AM, bunk3m wrote:
>     >>
>     >>>  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?
>     >>  .scm is for Scheme. Gnucash uses a variant called Guile-1.8 [1]
>     >>
>     >>  Any documentation is in the file in the form of comments. Some
>     comments are interpreted by Doxygen and produce the slightly more
>     readable developer documentation [2]. There's a subdirectory
>     (tax/us/de_DE) with the implementation for German taxes; that might be
>     helpful as well.
>     >  ...and if you were to work on an en_CA version you would need to
>     >  effectively duplicate the way the de_DE code was implemented,
>     including
>     >  some changes to the C code.
>     >
>     >>  Regards,
>     >>  John Ralls
>     >>
>     >>  [1]
>     [5]http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/docs/docs-1.8/guile-ref/index.html
>     >>  [2] svn.gnucash.org/docs/head/index.html
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>     >  -derek
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>     1. mailto:bunk3m at gmail.com
>     2. mailto:warlord at MIT.EDU
>     3. mailto:gnucash-user at gnucash.org
>     4. mailto:jralls at ceridwen.us
>     5. http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/docs/docs-1.8/guile-ref/index.html
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