For UK users: Will gnucash get ready for Making Tax Digital ?

[Colin Law]

On 25 July 2017 at 11:43, Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)
<drkirkby at kirkbymicrowave.co.uk> wrote:
> On 25 July 2017 at 05:39, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
> ...
> If there's no desire/developer time to support this, then its not worth
> giving it any more consideration. But IF there was a willingness to develop
> it, then I think it would be unfounded to judge that FOSS program would not
> be eligible. There are government initiatives here to encourage the use of
> open source software in government
>
> https://governmenttechnology.blog.gov.uk/2016/12/15/next-steps-for-open-source-in-government/
>
> Certainly for annual accounts submission, the UK government lists the
> protocol to send the information. Some information here for example
>
> https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/government-gateway-submission-protocol-31
>
> As far as I could work out before, if the software used their protocol, it
> would work.

Possibly an approach would be an application using the python bindings
to extract data from the gnucash database and post it to the gateway.

Colin