[GNC] Separating tax years for payments in next year

[Adrien Monteleone]

Why not create a transaction for the appropriate year between tax 
expense and tax payable?

Dr. Expenses:FederalTax
   Cr. Liabilities:FederalTaxPayable

Then when you actually pay,

Dr. Liabilities:FederalTaxPayable
   Cr. Checking (or whatever source account)

That way, the expense shows up for the year of the first transaction, 
the payment for the year of the second. Both are correct and in their 
respective accounting periods.

Regards,
Adrien

On 3/8/24 3:54 PM, David G. Pickett via gnucash-user wrote:
> I recently created ExpenseAccounts/Taxes/FederalEven and ExpenseAccounts/Taxes/FederalOdd to allow me to get a meaningful report on estimated tax and various tax withholding.  The payments in Jan 2024 for 2023 estimated and later for 2-23 tax due do not clutter the reports on 2024 tax year, and the 2022 items do not get into the 2023 report.  Is there a better way to deal with this?