Norman Frederick wrote: > Ralph Shumaker wrote: >> Norman Frederick wrote: > I thank you both for your answers. You got me on the right direction in > spite of my typing errors. > In my SS C is the date Sold, D is the amount rcvd, E is the date Bought, > F is the amount Paid, G is short and H is long term. Even the IRS will > not argue with 365 days as a year.
The IRS will not argue with 365 days as a year if and only if the law says to use 365 days for this purpose. > Exactly 365 is a condition so > improbable that I can live with it. A corollary to Murphy's Law says that the more one dismisses unfortunate events as improbable, the more probable they become :-) > When I finally put Shumakers formula > in correctly it worked just as I wanted. What I ended with is: > =IF(Cn-En<365,Dn-Fn,) for Gn and > =IF(Cn-En>365,Dn-Fn,) for Hn It's become worse. If you had followed Shumaker, a bad guess about the 365 thing would have led to your wife paying the wrong rate of tax on exactly-365-days gains. However you haven't put Shumaker's suggestion in. You have inverted the "days < 365" condition incorrectly as "days > 365" instead of "days >= 365". If the difference is exactly 365 days, the amount of gain is put in neither column G nor column H, and the IRS will nab you as an accessory to your wifes's tax evasion :-) _______________________________________________ gnumeric-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumeric-list
