[GNC] Tax report options

[John Ralls]

> On May 14, 2023, at 19:24, flywire <flywire0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> GnuCash Tax reporting feature doesn't work for Australia.

Nor are they intended to be. TXF is a format invented by a US company, Intuit, to transfer information from their Quicken personal finance manager to their US tax-reporting program Turbotax. Other programs adopted the format as a defacto standard. The codes are keyed to US tax forms. The code is in a directory named libgnucash/tax/us and gnucash/report/reports/locale-specific/us. There's a maintained German interpretation in libgnucash/tax/de_DE and gnucash/report/reports/locale-specific/de_DE, but it hasn't had any substantive maintenance in 12 years.

A PR for an Australian version would be welcome, but for it to be really useful somebody has to maintain it like Alex does the US one. Even that ignores the other end of the equation, the tax program to import the TXF data.

FWIW I have fairly complex taxes but i find it easier to run a balance sheet and income statement for the end of the year and just fill out the Turbotax questionnaires from that than to maintain the ever-changing relationships between accounts and TXF categories.

Regards,
John Ralls