[GNC] Any Simpler Way to Schedule Irregular Estimated Tax Payments?

[Patrick James]

The challenge is that there are only 5 months between January and June, but combine state and fed and treat them as two pairs.

That gets you down to 2 transactions.

Summary:
1: Jan 15 + 3 months later
2: Jun 15 + 3 months later.

Of course you could pick any two and pair those, and then the other two also make a pair.


> On 06/01/2026 7:51 PM PDT Tom Route36 <tom.route36 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>  
> Hi all,
> 
> This is a really minor how-to question; but I'm just throwing it out 
> here to see if maybe there's a better way of doing this.  I make 
> estimated tax payments 4 times a year to the federal and my state tax 
> office.  The due dates are April 15, June 15, September 15, and January 
> 15 -- so intervals of 2 months, 3, months, and 4 months apart.  GnuCash 
> lets you schedule recurring transactions; but only a fixed number of 
> months apart (as far as I can tell).
> 
> So what I've done is setup 8 scheduled transactions on those exact dates 
> -- 4 for federal (with equal amounts), and 4 for state (with equal 
> amounts).  What I'd really prefer though is having just 2 scheduled 
> transactions -- 1 for federal, and 1 for state.  The complication though 
> is how to schedule those irregular monthly intervals.
> 
> Is there anyway in GnuCash to schedule a single transaction to occur 
> with a variable frequency like this?  Or to maybe ask it somewhat 
> differently, is there a way to schedule a single transaction to occur 
> repeatedly but only on specific dates during the year?
> 
> I know this isn't a big issue.  But I'm just wondering if it's possible 
> to combine those 8 scheduled transactions into just 2.  Any advice would 
> be appreciated.
> 
> Tom
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