On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 12:52:41AM +0000, Buddha Buck wrote: > GnuCash does not currently (to my knowledge) support any > jurisdiction-specify tax policy or reporting requirements. To do so for one > would imply that it should do so for all, and that is a maintenance > nightmare. As such, I think it more likely that someone would write a > program that can take reports or data that GnuCash can already generate > (CSV exports? OFX exports?) and uploads the necessary info to HMRC.
A small program that takes a well defined import and can talk the HMRC Making Tax Difficult protocol might be the best way forwards; similar programs could then also be written to talk to the tax people in other countries - without cluttering up the core of Gnucash. I am not sure, however, if this would be enough to keep HMRC happy - they seem to want verification of the whole accounts program ... I am talking about a standalone shim/add-on. I know many companies that have their own accounts s/ware, written over many years that does just what they need. MTD could cause huge problems if there is a lot of effort in getting these certified or if the companies need to change to use an off-the-shelf/bought-in package. I don't think that HMRC have thought about it from anything other than their own perspective. On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 08:03:45PM -0700, John Ralls wrote: > GnuCash can generate TXF files that certain US and German tax prep software > can support. Alex Aycinena maintains the former and Christian Stimming the > latter, but Christian has had real life intervene and doesn’t at present have > time to contribute code to GnuCash so I suspect that the German version is > out of date. > > If anyone else would like to contribute a similar report for their country > we’ll be happy to add it to the distribution, but one should bear in mind > that doing so is a commitment to maintain it with typically annual updates. > > That applies to MTD as well: Of our current regular contributors only Mike > Evans is British; if he’s not motivated to develop the support someone else > from the UK will have to step up or it won’t happen. I would be willing to help here. However: I know nothing about Gnucash, neither as a developer nor a user. My own small business accounts are essentially manual; if it were not for MTD I would not see any benefit in changing this - so I want what will be least effort to keep HMRC off my back. -- Alain Williams Linux/GNU Consultant - Mail systems, Web sites, Networking, Programmer, IT Lecturer. +44 (0) 787 668 0256 http://www.phcomp.co.uk/ Parliament Hill Computers Ltd. Registration Information: http://www.phcomp.co.uk/contact.php #include <std_disclaimer.h> _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org 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.
