On Sep 26, 2013, at 8:55 PM, Tommy Trussell <tommy.truss...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 3:01 PM, Carsten Rinke <carsten.ri...@gmx.de> wrote: > >> 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 >> >> > If I recall the TXF data format *IS* based on the US tax forms. TXF was > created as an interchange format to exchange data between the folks who > created online tax forms and the folks who want to get or send the data > between those forms and other systems. Close. It was invented by Intuit [1] to transfer tax data between their Quicken personal finance program and their TurboTax income tax program; it was later expanded to also transfer data from licensed financial institutions to TurboTax. Regards, John Ralls [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TXF _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
