Yes - it's included in 2.4.10. If you download 2.4.10 for Mac or Windows, it's included.
On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 4:49 PM, David T. <sunfis...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Alex-- > > Sorry to be dense, but I want to be entirely clear here: GnuCash users who > download an executable package for GnuCash (that is, most Mac and Windows > users) will have these tax updates by default? > > TIA, > David > > ________________________________ > From: Alex Aycinena <alex.aycin...@gmail.com> > To: gnucash-devel@gnucash.org; gnucash-u...@gnucash.org; > gnucash-annou...@gnucash.org > Sent: Tuesday, February 7, 2012 4:12 PM > Subject: Re: GnuCash 2.4.10 released - How to get updated US Tax Info > > As Christian mentions in his 2.4.10 announcement, below, this release > contains updates that "reflect changes to US Income Tax Forms and > Schedules for 2011". These are not extremely significant changes but > if you are subject to US Income Tax reporting requirements and use > gnucash to aid in preparing your US tax returns, you should upgrade so > that your Tax Report reflects these latest updates. > > If you are using Windows or a Mac, the announcement tells you where to > get the update. > > If you are using another operating system (Linux, etc.), the easiest > way to get the update is to wait until it becomes available through > your normal package distribution mechanism. But sometimes there can be > significant delays between the gnucash release and its availability > through these normal distribution channels. And since tax time in the > US is upon us now, there is a way that you may be able to get just the > US Tax updates into your existing gnucash installation before the > 2.4.10 release is available to you, if certain prerequisites apply to > your installation. See the instructions that follow Christian's > announcement: > >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: Christian Stimming <christ...@cstimming.de> >> To: gnucash-devel@gnucash.org, gnucash-u...@gnucash.org, >> gnucash-annou...@gnucash.org >> Cc: >> Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:16:44 +0100 >> Subject: GnuCash 2.4.10 released >> GnuCash 2.4.10 released >> >> The GnuCash development team proudly announces GnuCash 2.4.10, the ninth >> bug >> fix release in a series of stable of the GnuCash Free Accounting Software. >> With this release series, GnuCash can use an SQL database using SQLite3, >> MySQL >> or PostgreSQL. It runs on GNU/Linux, *BSD, Solaris, Microsoft Windows and >> Mac >> OSX. >> >> >> Getting GnuCash for Windows (Win32 binary) >> >> The Gnucash 2.4.10 Win32 setup executable >> >> http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gnucash/gnucash-2.4.10-setup.exe >> can be downloaded from Sourceforge. It will install everything needed to >> run >> GnuCash. >> >> >> Mac OSX binary >> >> The Gnucash 2.4.10 MacOSX package >> >> http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gnucash/Gnucash-Intel-2.4.10.dmg >> can be downloaded from Sourceforge as well. >> >> >> Getting GnuCash as source code >> >> If you want to compile GnuCash 2.4.10 for yourself, the source code can be >> downloaded from: >> >> Sourceforge: >> >> http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gnucash/gnucash-2.4.10.tar.bz2 >> >> To compile GnuCash from the source code by yourself, you will need Gnome >> 2, >> guile, slib. In addition you will need swig if compiling from subversion. >> >> >> Changes >> >> Between 2.4.9 and 2.4.10, the following bugfixes were included: >> > > (deleted) > >> Update txf.scm in stable branch to reflect changes to US Income Tax >> Forms > > (deleted) > >> > > To upgrade the US Income Tax information on an existing gnucash > installation: > > Prerequisites: You must have at least 2.3.8, or later, installed for > the following to work. If not, THIS WON'T WORK, so don't do it. (If > you can't upgrade using your distribution's package manager to at > least this level, your only choice is to build from source.) You also > must have administrative/root privileges on your system. > > 1. Determine where gnucash files are installed on your system, > specifically the file: 'txf.scm'. For example, on my Fedora system, it > is located in '/usr/share/gnucash/scm/' and is owned by 'root'. The > location may be different for your distribution. > > 2. Exit gnucash if it is running. As 'root', locate and change the > name of the existing 'txf.scm' file to 'txf.scm.orig' noting its > ownership and permissions (su -; cd /usr/share/gnucash/scm; ls -al; > rename txf.scm txf.scm.orig. txf.scm; ls -al). > > 3. As your regular user, with your internet browser, go to > 'http://svn.gnucash.org/repo/gnucash/tags/2.4.10/src/tax/us/' and > right-click on and save 'txf.scm' somewhere (e.g.: > /home/user-name/Downloads). > > 4. As 'root', move the downloaded 'txf.scm' file to the location where > 'txf.scm.orig' is located and make sure its ownership and permissions > are the same as the original file (mv > /home/user-name/Downloads/txf.scm /usr/share/gnucash/scm/txf.scm; ls > -al; chown root:root /usr/share/gnucash/scm/txf.scm; ls -al; chmod g-w > /usr/share/gnucash/scm/txf.scm; ls -al). > > 5. Restart gnucash and confirm that the new file is being used > properly by selecting Edit->Tax Report Options and confirming that the > dialog works properly. Specifically, test it by temporarily setting > Tax Type as 'Individual, ...' if it is not that already, selecting > 'Income' for 'Accounts', selecting some random income account, if it > is not already selected as 'Tax Related', do so, scrolling down to > 'Sched D Short/Long gain or loss' and selecting it, then scrolling the > lower area to see the 'Form Line Data' and if it says '2011 - now > 1,2, or 3 via ...' everything is fine. Click 'Cancel' so that no > changes are made to your data from the test. > > Note that if you have any difficulties you can exit gnucash, delete > the downloaded 'txf.scm', rename 'txf.scm.orig' back to the way it was > before and restart gnucash to be back where you were. > > Also, if you do any upgrades to your existing installation after these > steps to a release that is less than 2.4.10 (say, for example, from > 2.4.4 to 2.4.9), you will have to redo these steps. > > Finally, I'll comment that although I reference Fedora above just > because that happens to be the distribution I use, my experience is > that the Fedora gnucash package maintainer is very timely in releasing > updates so that if you use Fedora, you probably won't have to do this. > > Alex Aycinena > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-devel mailing list > gnucash-devel@gnucash.org > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel > > _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
