Re: r23343 - gnucash/trunk - Add --with-xdg-data-dirs to specify default search path for XDG data directories.
On Sunday 27 October 2013 17:57:43 Mike Alexander wrote: > Author: mta > Date: 2013-10-27 17:57:42 -0400 (Sun, 27 Oct 2013) > New Revision: 23343 > Trac: http://svn.gnucash.org/trac/changeset/23343 > > Modified: >gnucash/trunk/configure.ac >gnucash/trunk/src/bin/Makefile.am > Log: > Add --with-xdg-data-dirs to specify default search path for XDG data > directories. > > ___ > gnucash-patches mailing list > gnucash-patc...@gnucash.org > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-patches Thanks Mike ! Geert ___ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
Re: Allowing the user to select the currency symbol
On Saturday 26 October 2013 18:50:46 Frédéric Perrin wrote: > Le jeudi 24 à 21:55, Geert Janssens a écrit : > > On Thursday 24 October 2013 21:37:58 Frédéric Perrin wrote: > >> Can't try right now, my build just failed with « > >> libgncmod-register-gnome.so: undefined reference to > >> `gnc_gconf_get_int' » and I don't have time tonight to investigate. > > > > If you're working from latest trunk, gnc_gconf_get_int should be > > replaced with gnc_prefs_get_int (and you need to include gnc-prefs.h > > instead of gnc-gconf-utils.h). > > I didn't properly clean my tree. > > Attached is a patch to use the symbol in iso-4217-currencies. Nice improvement ! Committed as r23345. Thank you very much. Geert ___ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
Re: [Bug 710873] New Tax Declaration Info Report - multi-national, multi-purpose (private, business, ...)
Mike or Penny Novack writes: > Perhaps totally underestimating the scope of the problem. > > For example, in the US there are 50 states, perhaps half of which have > a sales tax. The problem isn't just that the rates would all be I think many more than half the 50 states have a sales tax. I think it's more like "over 40". > different but also that to what they apply (or not) would be > different* and you'd need in addition a way to waive sales tax (for > example, this customer is a non-profit that has filed a copy their > exemption certificate with you). That's just for ONE country. It's even worse than that. Some states allow counties and cities to set/add their own sales taxes, too. So here in Georgia sales tax in the city of Atlanta is 8.25%, but drive 15 minutes to get to Dunwoody and taxes drop to 6% (different county and city). From there drive 10 minutes to Sandy Springs (back in the same county as Atlanta, but different city) and taxes are 7%. But wait, there's more! Some items (iirc certain food items) are taxed at a lower rate (3%).. and some items are tax free! > For doing this automated, leave to the folks (if any) trying to > develop a "point of sales" system (that would feed an accounting > system like gnucash with the transaction already properly split). Exactly; the system is WAY too complicated and requires ever-changing locality information. It's better for the people in the locality to know what the local tax rules are. For GnuCash to do this it would require full-time people working on it to make sure it's correct. I doubt anyone would be willing to do that on a volunteer basis; do you think GnuCash users would be willing to pay an annual fee for this service? > Michael > > * You might want an example of complexity? I am in Massachusetts. We > have a sales tax but (in this state) it does not apply to items of > clothing below a certain cost. If I bought a fancy coat for $300 it > would be taxable. If I bought four dress pants at $80 per pair even > though the total for those pair $320 that would not be taxable. If I > went to a supermarket and bought various items of food (for home > consumption), a bottle of laundry soap, and while there from the deli > dept a sandwich to eat while in the store the food isn't taxed, the > soap and the sandwich are. > > And proper calculation of sales tax amounts isn't to compute the tax > individually on each item but to total up the taxables and compute the > tax on that (like many states with sales tax the tax is rounded *up* > to the nearest penny so if figured individually would average one cent > more per item rather only rounding up once on the total). But I am far > from certain all states work it that way. -derek -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH warl...@mit.eduPGP key available ___ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
Re: [Bug 710873] New Tax Declaration Info Report - multi-national, multi-purpose (private, business, ...)
Carsten Rinke writes: > Hi, > > you might be right that I miss out completely some complexity. > > First let me add that all that I am doing now will be done on top of > what is existing, so anything that is already there remains untouched. > > Secondly, I understand that the "new tax info dialog" can handle only > certain level of complexity. > > And now come the BUTs: > But I do not fully see how your comments related to the proposed > solution (keep in mind that I do not run a business). > I get the point that the sales tax is applied in very many different > ways within the US alone. > > Is it that you try to hint me to the point that sales tax has not yet > been implemented yet and that the new approach might not make it > either? That might be correct, but that does not mean that a new > approach might not be good enough for other tax types. > > How are sales tax handled in GnuCash today? Doesn't it go to certain > accounts from where you can get a sum over year? As a non-business it's not handled at all; and for a non-business why should it be? For businesses you can apply taxes via a Tax Table to each line-item in an Invoice. Each Tax Table allows you to define potentially multiple taxes that get applied together (e.g. Canadian PST and GST). However for something like GA or CA where each locality has its own unique sales tax you would need a unique Tax Table per locality. > How are sales tax declared? Isn't the principle of using paper based > forms with certain fields somewhat similar to that of the other tax > types? Again, as a non-business why do you care? > Anyhow, I am focussing on the more simple types for now. > > Kind regards, > Carsten -derek -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH warl...@mit.eduPGP key available ___ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
