I just start my description "2023 Q1 fed estimate" or similar in my tax
payable account. If you do that, you can use a filter for reports.
Also, since I use a liability account, I can reconcile it after filing.
Then you can filter the account itself for unreconciled transactions,
which will
Why not create a transaction for the appropriate year between tax
expense and tax payable?
Dr. Expenses:FederalTax
Cr. Liabilities:FederalTaxPayable
Then when you actually pay,
Dr. Liabilities:FederalTaxPayable
Cr. Checking (or whatever source account)
That way, the expense shows up for
Subfolders is a good alternative, better for reports over multiple years but
more maintenance creating and destroying folders.
If GNUCash wanted, they might make a magic subcategory /Prior to qualify the
date's year to year - 1, but that seems very tricky to code into every date
filter.
I like the idea -- I usually just "remember" that the Jan payment is for
the previous year. But if you're going to make sub-accounts under taxes,
why not use actual years? Taxes/Federal/2023 and Taxes/Federal/2024. Once a
year is done with, you can easily hide the account so that it doesn't show
I recently created ExpenseAccounts/Taxes/FederalEven and
ExpenseAccounts/Taxes/FederalOdd to allow me to get a meaningful report on
estimated tax and various tax withholding. The payments in Jan 2024 for 2023
estimated and later for 2-23 tax due do not clutter the reports on 2024 tax
year,
