Hi Jediator/ND/GNUCash users, ND: the new feature(s) you are describing here would take work to create, test, and push out. That work takes skilled people time & energy. If you and/or anyone else are seriously asking for new features, I'm sure that the deveopment team would appreciate donations that correspond to such requests - https://www.gnucash.org/donate.phtml
It is sometimes difficult enough keeping GnuCash maintained & compliant. David: good suggestion about the separate GnuCash files for multiple sets of books tracking multiple businesses from self employed individuals. For those that are interested, there is an open source tax preparation software for US taxpayers, but it is pretty limited in terms of the states that it works with and what forms it works with. https://opentaxsolver.sourceforge.net/ - I also do not know what integration and/or collaboration possibilities exist between Open Tax Solver/OTS and GNUCash...? https://www.propublica.org/series/the-turbotax-trap - I do not like how Intuit (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intuit - one of the largest financial software firms in the world & the parent company of TurboTax) has lobbied the federal & state governments in the USA over how the IRS and state taxation agencies deal with tax preparation software for individual taxpayers. Propublica detailed many of Intuit's tactics in the many articles in their "The TurboTax Trap" series. On the other hand, Quickbooks and TurboTax are market leaders for a reason - they make good software/products. https://www.americanprogress.org/article/an-open-source-tax-credit/ - this 2006 proposal goes over how an open source tax credit for US taxpayers would allow W2/employed individuals to be financially incentivized to contribute to open source software projects, in the same way that corporations & self employed individuals already can. I do not know if anyone is lobbying for such a proposal with the new presidential administration and/or the Department of Government Efficiency/DOGE... Heaved exaggerated sigh, as my sister would say. --- Thanks, Brad - https://www.facebook.com/brad.morrison.12327/ & https://norcal.social/@BradMorrison On 2025-01-20 07:49, Jediator wrote: > Thanks David. Here are some use cases: Joe is a plumber but also delivers > groceries to nursing homes. Joanne is a realtor but also runs a property > management service, and sells Tupperwares to other moms. It is not uncommon > that many self-employed today have more than one business, and IRS wants you > to clearly separate each types of business, i.e., filling each business on > separate Schedule Cs. For people owning more than three rental properties, > you definitely need more than one Schedule E. I would assume many > accountants and other financial professionals on this mailing list had > encountered similar use cases. > > Actually you don't have to have separate books for different Schedule Cs/Es. > Just need to select relevant accounts when doing TXF export. You have to do > multiple import or manually concatenate those TXF files (TXF are ACSCII > files) with some manual editing to create a single TXF. But it shouldn't be > difficult to enable multi-schedule-C/E export. First the user needs to > predefine a list of businesses (a new GUI window). Second, associate each > account with a pre-defined business when defining tax reporting options (a > pull-down manual on the tax report option window). A new back-end database > table may have to be create. > > I'd like to hear other options before filing a new feature request. Cheers! > > -- ND > > On 1/19/25 1:46 PM, sunfis...@yahoo.com wrote: > >> 1) GnuCash is intended for small businesses and individuals. A single entity >> needs only one Schedule C. >> >> 2) The TXF functionality has been supplied by one contributor to meet basic >> reporting needs. >> >> #1 suggests one Schedule C per file would be provided in GnuCash. #2 >> suggests that the need for multiple Schedule Cs would be beyond the scope of >> that contributor. >> >> I suggest that you would be better served by setting up separate GnuCash >> files for each entity requiring its own Schedule C. >> >> David T. >> On Jan 19, 2025, at 7:52 PM, Jediator <jedia...@artemisspace.com> wrote: >> >> Apparently the default TXF export in GNC can only generate a single >> Schedule C and/or Schedule E doc. Is there anyway to do multiple Sch C >> and E in TXF export? One option to circumvent this would be to select >> export accounts and create multiple TXF files corresponding to different >> schedules. But not sure how the tax software (e.g. TurboTax) would be >> able to import them correctly. Has anyone done this before? 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