Once every three months, this *particular* pair of transactions will occur. There are plenty of others in that happen over those three months.
On Sat, Feb 4, 2023 at 9:43 AM William Prescott <w...@theprescotts.com> wrote: > Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't understand why you are bothering > to do an import if there are only two transactions once every three months. > Wouldn't it be easier to just enter them by hand the way you want > > On Feb 4, 2023, at 09:23, Simon Roberts <si...@dancingcloudservices.com> > wrote: > > Hi all, > > I use a third party organization to run payroll, and they make two > withdrawals from my bank. One is the amount actually paid to employees (two > of us :) and the other is the sum of taxes collected from those employees, > plus the employer's tax contributions. > > Unsurprisingly, when this imports, from the bank records, it shows as two > transactions, and the tax stuff is all lumped into a single transaction. > > As yet, I've only handled this once and did it wrong anyway (I fixed it up > by hand OK though). However, in three months it'll happen again so I figure > if I ask now I could be ready to try to do it right next time. > > What I'd like--but suspect might be impossible, is to persuade the import > operation to create a split to the two accounts (payroll taxes: employer > and payroll taxes-employee). I'm not so concerned about how the money is > allocated across the split (there's really no way for the system to know > what to do about that, after all), but if there's a placeholder, that would > be a nice start. > > Or perhaps there's some other approach that I've not thought of? > > What do folks recommend? > > Cheers, > Simon > > > -- > Simon Roberts > (303) 249 3613 > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > 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. > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > 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. > -- Simon Roberts (303) 249 3613 _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: 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.
