David, Agreed. It is more associated with tax reporting and specifically in the US. The TXF system seems to have been very specific to the US IRS system but appears to now be becoming redundant in any case see (https://taxdataexchange.org/docs/txf/v042/index.html) [1] with a migration to data in FDX JSON formats for importing (see https://www.financialdataexchange.org/FDX/FDX/News/Announcements/Maximizing%20Efficiency_Export%20and%20Import%20FDX%20JSON%20Files.aspx). [2] FDX seems to be a closed shop, i.e. you need to be a business/govt organisation to participate as they won't accept other than organisational email addresses to register. It is possible to apply for a waiver however. Someone in the US might consider doing this.
The Edit-> Tax Report Options dialogue seems to associate specific accounts within GnuCash with specific US IRS forms (and perhaps even specific information within those forms) i.e. it maps the account structure setup within GnuCash onto the US IRS form submission requirements. AFAIK it does not add any properties to the accounts structure within GnuCash itself but constructs the mapping table used in the construction of the report and the TXF export file, so to use it you have to setup the account structure in a manner which can be mapped onto the IRS requirements as we have prviously suggested to Fred. The Reports->Tax Schedule Report and TXF Exports generates the required output. The report author may be able to give Fred more specific advice on using it I haven't explored it further as it has no relevance to the Australian taxation system although a similar tax report could obviously be made for the tax system in any specific country. The ATO does not use the TFX or FDX formats as such and has its own set of digital form formats which are in XBRL which is an extended xml specific to business reporting requirements. The ATO also likes setting up closed shops with software developer groups and you can't register as a digital service provider unless you are a company. Their file format specifications do not appear to be publicly available, possibly for security reasons, although one would hope they are not relying on that alone to provide secure transmission and authentication of the originator. On Sat, 2025-03-15 at 00:17 +0300, sunfis...@yahoo.com wrote: > David, > > Fred is referring specifically to the assignment of txf categories in > the tax options portion of GnuCash accounts. These txf categories are > assigned to one or more GnuCash accounts and allow a user in theory > to export their tax data directly to tax software. I would argue > that, in this case, GnuCash is, in fact implementing categories > (orthogonal measures of financial data sets). > > David T. > On Mar 14, 2025, at 11:58 PM, David Cousens <davidcousen...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Fred > > > > There are no such things as "categories" in GnuCash per se. > > > > Any categorisation of transactions is done in GnuCash by creating > > different distinct sub accounts for those different categories of > > transactions. > > > > e.g > > > > Income:Dividends:Qualified > > Income:Dividends:Unqualified > > > > and then using the appropriate sub-account as the second( transfer) > > account in the second entry of the transaction when you record it. > > > > David Cousens > > > > On Fri, 2025-03-14 at 15:23 -0300, Fred Tydeman wrote: > > > Is it possible to edit or add to the TXF categories? > > > I would like to have separate categories for > > > qualified versus non-qualified dividends. > > > > > > > > > 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. [1] https://taxdataexchange.org/docs/txf/v042/index.html) https://taxdataexchange.org/docs/txf/v042/index.html [2] https://www.financialdataexchange.org/FDX/FDX/News/Announcements/Maximizing%20Efficiency_Export%20and%20Import%20FDX%20JSON%20Files.aspx). https://www.financialdataexchange.org/FDX/FDX/News/Announcements/Maximizing%20Efficiency_Export%20and%20Import%20FDX%20JSON%20Files.aspx _______________________________________________ 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.
