A BASH script to help get tax-related data from gnucash

[David T.]

I’m sorry. Your original characterization was vague, and I didn’t understand what your issue with that report was. I see what you are noting, although it’s not something that bothers me. FWIW, I would probably dump the report into a spreadsheet and munge the data there if the redundancies were an issue.

Nevertheless, thanks for sharing your script; perhaps it will help others out!

Cheers,
David

> On Dec 15, 2017, at 8:22 PM, azalea4va <common17.nabble at azalea.name> wrote:
> 
> GnuCash - User mailing list wrote
>> If you have set the accounts as tax-related, why wouldn't you use the Tax
>> Schedule Report?  
> 
> I thought I addressed that in my post when I said "I find the provided "Tax
> Schedule Report" as being les than ideal in its presentation of the
> information I seek."
> 
> Look at the attached screenshot where I have side-by-side the portions of
> the two reports information about "Tax Prep" expenses,  tax-prep.png
> <http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/file/t377531/tax-prep.png>  .  The Tax
> Schedule report has 4 lines vs 1 in the Income Statement and the Tax
> Schedule is almost twice as wide.  They convey the same USEFUL information
> but the Tax Schedule takes almost 8 times the space.  Additionally, there is
> the "noise" of other info on the Tax Schedule that intereferes with easily
> accessing the info I want.  Please understand that this example is just
> showing one data item, so the "noise" is not a major issue.  But when one
> looks at the entire report with hundreds of lines of output (most of it
> noise), then the noise really gets in the way. Yes the tax Schedule also
> gives the line number on the tax form.  But that is useless info for me.  I
> use tax prep software so I am not dealing with line numbers in forms.  But
> also, it is not a number I can rely on as depending on the version of
> gnucash and the tax year, that number will not always be accurate. 
> 
> In addition, because of the lack of noise in the Income Statement, it is
> easy to copy/paste the tax-related data into a spreadsheet (or whatever).
> Yes, getting info out of gnucash for use in other things is something of
> value to me. For example, in a spreadsheet where I have an added column that
> tracks if a data item will have a tax form being sent to me and if that form
> has been received or not. The spreadsheet makes it easy to keep track of
> cross checking received form data with data in gnucash and data entered into
> the tax return itself.
> 
> So for those reasons, I find the Income Statement format more useful.  I am
> not saying the Income Statement is "better" for everyone, just that I find
> it a useful alternative. Your mileage may vary.  I offer the tool for anyone
> who finds it of value.
> 
> 
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