Not sure it will help in any effective way. But I do the same with my accounts and use my internet banking to match my postings. What I do for that scenario is to transfer the owed money to one of my saving accounts (my bank lets me have "as many as I want"). So that way the money is stored away from my checking account, and it stills traceable using Ledger and my internet banking.
Hope this helps =D On Thursday, 23 July 2015 19:20:49 UTC+1, Simão Mata wrote: > > Hello, > > I am learning how to use ledger and I have a question. > > One think I really like is that I can check that everything is right by > checking the current balance of my Assets:Checkings entry, if it's the > exact same as my online banking app says then I can trust I am keeping the > journal properly. > > I receive my salary from my clients and I need to pay taxes to the > goverment at the end of the year, so for each client I need to deduct taxes > and keep this value somewhere until the end of the year. I would like to > track this value using Ledger also. > > My first thought was to write a transaction from Assets:Checkings, where I > get my salary, to Liabilities:OwedTax but then Assets:Checkings no longer > matches the exact value I have on my online banking. This is correct, > actually. since I cannot use that money and is not mine, I owe it to the > government, but makes it difficult to track how much money I actually have. > > Is there any way to keep track of this owed tax and how much money I can > use (checkings - tax) and at the same time have a balance entry for the > exact amount my online banking app shows? > > I thought about using these virtual accounts but I am not sure if it's the > way to go. > > Thank you for your help. > > -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ledger" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ledger-cli+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
