Now it's very clear to me. I think we might have official code for each item(or line) in our country, maybe we can use it as a reference, I'm not sure. But, anyway, I understand it very clear, it help me a lot. Thanks all of you.
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 5:12 AM, J. Alex Aycinena <alex.aycin...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear Tao Wang, > > Please see my comments below: > >> From: Dancefire <dancef...@gmail.com> >> To: "J. Alex Aycinena" <alex.aycin...@gmail.com> >> Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 13:00:44 +1000 >> Subject: Re: Could you help on some uncleared strings during my translations? >> On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 5:22 AM, J. Alex Aycinena >> <alex.aycin...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> See comments, below: >>> >>>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >>>> From: Christian Stimming <stimm...@tuhh.de> >>>> To: Dancefire <dancef...@gmail.com> >>>> Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 11:18:50 +0200 >>>> Subject: Re: Could you help on some uncleared strings during my >>>> translations? >>>> I'll answer the rest: >>>> >>>> Zitat von Dancefire <dancef...@gmail.com>: >>>>> >>>>> 1) >>>>> #: ../src/gnome/dialog-tax-info.c:281 >>>>> msgid "Form Line Data: " >>>>> >>>>> What's meaning of that? >>>> >>>> The source code location suggests this is related to the mapping of >>>> gnucash accounts to the tax-related paperwork. I think this string means >>>> "The line in your tax forms [i.e. the paper form with the official number >>>> e.g. foo-123] to which this account belongs to." >>>> >>> >>> This is essentially correct. For the US Income Tax support in gnucash, >>> each tax code that can be assigned to an account generally corresponds >>> to a specific line number on a paper form and each form has a unique >>> identification (e.g., Form 1040, Schedule A). However, the line number >>> on a given form tends to vary from year to year. To make it easy to >>> map a users gnucash data to US Income Tax forms, the US Income Tax >>> Report sorts and totals the amounts by line number within tax form. >>> The system has, and displays on the Tax Information Dialog, the data >>> showing for each year what form and line number on that form a given >>> tax code is associated with - the heading on the dialog for this block >>> of displayed data is "Form Line Data". This data is displayed so that >>> when a user is doing the tax code assignment to an account, it can be >>> referenced to help understand what the tax code refers to. >>> >> >> I may misunderstand for the word "line number". Is it same as the line >> number in "there are 4000 lines in the main.cpp file, to view it >> clearly, you should show the Line Number on left side."? >> Should I translate the "Form Line Data" as "Form Number Data" or "Form >> Code Data"? I think "Form 1040" is a form number, rather than form >> line number. Or that means the form contains 1040 lines of words? >> > > Yes, I can see the source of the confusion with what I said - sorry > about that. "Form 1040" is the name the US government gives to the tax > form. A different tax form may be called, for example, "Schedule A > (Form 1040)". There are many of these. Each of these forms has > multiple lines on them, each of which would correspond to one or more > tax codes listed in gnucash in the Tax Options Dialog. Each tax code > listed there could be assigned to one or more accounts. > > Perhaps looking at one would help? I have attached a pdf of a tax form > called "Schedule A" (ignore the first page of the pdf - look at page > 2). You will see that, for tax year 2009, line 16 is "Gifts by cash or > check". In tax year 2006, this same item, "Gifts by cash or check", > was line 15 on that year's version of the form. > > So the phrase "Form Line Data" is a heading displayed above the listed > data showing year ranges and line numbers on the Tax Options Dialog > and means: "Data about the Line numbers on Tax Forms". On the screen, > for the tax code with the description "Gifts by cash or check", it > looks like this: > > Form Line Data: > 2007 - now 16 > 1994 - 2006 15 > 1991 - 1993 13 > etc. > > Hope that helps. > >>> >>> Alex >>> >> >> Thank all of you so much for your help. >> > > On the contrary - thank you for the translation and the attention to detail. > >> -- >> Regards >> >> Tao Wang > > Regards, > > Alex > -- Regards Tao Wang _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
