I just started using gnucash this summer, so I am investigating using it to assist in tax preparation for the first time. I have gone through the process of marking all income/expense accounts as tax-related. But I find the provided "Tax Schedule Report" as being les than ideal in its presentation of the information I seek. (There seems to be an issue with gnucash in general, the information formats frequently lack clarity and conciseness so one must wade through lots of "noise" to get the desired info. Look at the listing for the general ledger and more than 50% of the screen is white-space.)
What I have found useful is using the "Income Statement Report", configured to use exactly those accounts which are tax-related. I have found no easy way to accomplish that configuration in gnucash (I must manually click all those accounts on the account config page, hoping I accurately remember them all). So I wrote a BASh script to extract a tax-related account listing from a gnucash file. The output from that script includes a line that can be inserted into the configuration for a report in the '~/.gnucash/saved-reports-2.4' file so that report will process exactly those tax-related files. I provide that script here for those linux geeks who are comfortable manually editting gnucash configuration files and may find the script get-tax-acct.get-tax-acct <http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/file/t377531/get-tax-acct.get-tax-acct> of use. -- Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-User-f1415819.html _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
