Hi,
as far as I can see the income tax info collection is only available for
the US.
There is also some German business tax stuff implemented, but regarding
income tax no international implementation is available yet.
If this is correct understanding then I would like to volunteer to
implement such a "international" solution. This is not really trivial,
so I would like to get some feedback if my idea outlined below has a
chance to find a way into the main trunk before spending the hours on it.
Proposal for a solution:
1. Add a preference variable called "Tax Country" that lets the user
choose the country for which he would like to declare tax. This should
not be connected to the locale setting of the computer as for the German
business tax implementation (I for myself always install my computers
with english locale but I need to declare my taxes in Germany).
2. Currently the income tax info is collected in the dialog Preferences
-> Tax Report Options
Rename the dialog to "Income Tax Editor" and move it to the Tools menu.
3. Make the appearance of the dialog dependend on the preference setting
for "Tax Country".
This enables to display data for country specific tax declaration forms.
4. I am not familiar with the US tax system, but the the current dialog
seems to be TXF focussed, and I wonder how much this is related to paper
form based tax declarations. I would prefer a dialog that is structured
more in analogy to the old school paper form declarations like
1. choose a form from a set of forms given for a certain type of tax
declaration (here: income tax)
2. choose the line in this form to be filled in
3. choose the column to be filled in (if applicable, e.g. column for
"husband" or "wife")
4. choose the accounts that are relevant for the selected field
The concept that a scheme report has to be called to eventually display
the resulting Income Tax Report remains untouched. If the preference
says Tax Country "US" then the tax info dialog stays as is.
What do you think?
Kind regards,
/Carsten
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