[GNC] Tax Issues

[Mike stagl]

Thanks! I found the bug fix you mentioned and build gnucash on my Debian 9 machine with the corrected code.  It works perfectly!

Thank you!

Mike
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From: Alex Aycinena <alex.aycinena at gmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2019 12:15:29 AM
To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org; M_Stagl at hotmail.com
Subject: Re: Tax Issues

Mike,

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Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2019 17:51:04 +0000
Subject: [GNC] Tax Issues
I'm using GnuCash 3.3 on Debian 9.

I have an existing GnuCash file from 2018 that I would like to modify
to start using the the Tax Reporting features of GnuCash.  It doesn't
appear to be working.  Here is what I have tried.

Edit -> Tax Reporting Options
I EDIT Income Tax Identity to Individual (U.S. Form 1040) and enter a
name like "Tax"; select an expense account; click Tax Related checkbox;
 I pick a form from Schedule E on the list; and I click OK.

When I view the accounts tab, the Tax Info column displays "Tax Entity
Type Not Specified".  Also, the Tax Report from the Reports menu comes
up with no data (it says I need to enter the Tax Report Options dialog
to set up tax Entity Types).

I see a few comments about the tax stuff not working from time to time,
I am wondering what the latest is in version 3.3.

Any ideas?  Thanks everyone!

Mike

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Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2019 14:45:43 -0600
Subject: Re: [GNC] Tax Issues
Sorry I don’t have a copy of 3.3 handy to test, but on 3.4 it works as expected. (I’m using MacOS)

As a side note, I did notice how annoying it is that one can’t assign multiple accounts to be tax related without exiting the dialog. Clicking ‘OK’ closes the dialog and the user has to go back to Edit > Tax Reporting Options, find the next account, mark it tax related, choose a form, click ‘OK’, rinse repeat. It seems to me there should be an ‘Apply’ button that is missing.

Regards,
Adrien


This is a known issue.

If you entered Tax Name and Tax Type in an earlier version, the data persists. There was a problem in the generation of the Tax Report but that was fixed in the latest release. So if you had already entered the Tax Name and Tax Type earlier, you can generate the Tax Report.

However, if you hadn't previously entered the Tax Name and Tax Type, the current release won't save it (it's a bug). The fix for the bug will be available in the next release.

Regards,

Alex