Derek Atkins wrote: > Lloyd Kvam <pyt...@venix.com> writes: > >> NOTE-- The payroll documentation says: >> >> GnuCash does not have an integrated payroll system. While you can track >> payroll expenses in GnuCash, the calculation of taxes and deductions has >> to be done outside of GnuCash. >> >> That's the last piece a small business would seem to need. >> > Doing payroll is harder than it seems. There are pretax and posttax > deductions, and then there are all the various taxes that need to be > taken out, some from the employee, and some employer-paid. Then of > course there's the fact that each locale has its own tax rate, and those > change year to year... I think the best we could do in GnuCash is come > up with a good payroll framework and then let the actual tax rates and > local rules get plugged into the framework. > > This has been discussed on the gnucash-devel mailing list, and I > encourage anyone interested in this topic (or better yet, interested in > implementing it!) to join that list and bring it up there. > I wrote a payroll system a few decades ago. As I started from a far too simplistic framework, I created something too baroque to be maintainable in the long run. Coming from New Hampshire's fairly simply P/R taxes, I had no idea how complicated taxation could be elsewhere. Being a green software engineer didn't help, of course. I used to be amazed that no-one had developed a common framework that everyone could simply incorporate in their products. I still think it could be done. Now I would envision it as a separate service independent of GnuCash (or whatever application), so those applications would not need to embed the varying rates & logic within themselves, just pass some information to the payroll service, which would internally track the pay information, and the application would get back the results. Not that I have any desire to tackle that project ever again.
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