As I have done in past years, I have updated the data in GnuCash to reflect changes to US Income Tax Forms and Schedules for 2012. 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 income tax returns, you may wish to have access to the updates.
The changes are minor and are to: - Individuals: Schedule C, Schedule C-EZ, Schedule E, Schedule F, Form 8863 - Partnerships: Form 1065, Schedule F - Corporation: Form 1120 - S Corporation: Form 1120S, Schedule K-1 There is no new release available at this time to get these updates. If you use these forms and schedules, since tax time in the US is upon us now, if want to get the updates there is a way that you can get just the US Tax updates into your existing GnuCash installation, as follows: 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 other 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 linux system, it is located in '/usr/share/gnucash/scm/' and is owned by 'root'. The location may be different for a different linux distribution or if you are using Windows or a Mac. 2. Exit GnuCash if it is running. As 'root' (or 'admin'), locate and change the name of the existing 'txf.scm' file to 'txf.scm.orig' noting its ownership and permissions (for linux: 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 'svn.gnucash.org/trac/browser/gnucash/branches/2.4/src/tax/us/' and right-click on and save 'txf.scm' somewhere (e.g., for linux: /home/user-name/Downloads). If you use the version of GnuCash in trunk, the files are identical. 4. As 'root' (or 'admin'), 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 (for linux: 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 C Gross receipts or sales' and selecting it, then scrolling in the lower area to see the 'Form Line Data' and if it says '2012 - now 1' 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, or re-installs, after these steps, to a release that is version 2.4.11 or lower (say, for example, from 2.4.10 to 2.4.11), you will have to redo these steps. Regards, Alex _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
