On Thursday 26 September 2013 22:01:42 Carsten Rinke wrote: > 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). > Ok. But it may be handy to leverage the locale as default tax country if no tax country has been set explicitly (yet).
> 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? > All the rest seems fine to me. Good luck ! Geert _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
