On Wed, Aug 5, 2020 at 2:41 PM doncram <donc...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I said:
> > ........ I am not an expert about how personal financial accounting should 
> > be done, where that is different from business accounting.......
> Another said:   "If you lack the "qualifications" to be a tax advisor, don't 
> say tings
> like that"
> My response:  Well, I don't think i did wrong by suggesting there could be 
> tax consequences of how the educational fund was set up, and by my pointing 
> to 529 plans in the U.S., not yet brought up.  I will try to be clear about 
> what I know and don't know, and think I did okay that way in the 
> qualifications I stated.
>
> Right, though, I surmised, possibly incorrectly, that for the original 
> poster, that unrealized gains/losses in an informal fund should be included 
> in regular income and would be taxable.  It has been pointed out that the 
> gains/losses might not be taxable until stocks are sold. Their question, 
> anyhow, was how to do the accounting in GnuCash, and that is still open IMO.

If it helps set anyone's mind at ease, I didn't take this as tax advice :)

  -dann
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