On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 2:27 AM <[email protected]> wrote: > > So, for a french life insurrance or a french "Stock Plan" where the tax are > applied only when you take money out from the cash account linked to these > fiscal enveloppe, i don't need to care about lots, so i guess i have to use > booking method "NONE" is that correct ?
I don't know how French stock plans work. It depends if the tax you're talking about is on the full amount of the distribution or if there's some cost basis to subtract to compute it. If taxed on the full amount (like a USA 401k, it holds pre-tax money), you don't really /need/ to keep the cost basis at all (for calculating tax liability; the whole distribution is taxed). However, you can *choose* to do so if you're interested in calculating growth rate. In that case, whichever booking method you use is up to you (based on how you prefer to look at the distribution of your P/L over time). > > For an ordinary stock account, the tax are calculated base on Average cost, > so i guess i need to use the "average booking method" (which does not work > yet ?) That's correct. If it were supported, you'd use that. But it's not, so you should use the "NONE" method, and only look at the sum total of cost basis / sum total of units for computing the average (that's the useful number in that case). If someone's open to implementing the average cost method, it's possible and there's a well-defined place for it; the problem is that it's going to be a lot of work to chase down all the corner cases and possible numerical errors and waht not and whoever implements it should take care of that. > > How would i use different booking method for different account ? You can set the booking method on the Open directive. YYYY-MM-DD open Assets:MyAccount "NONE" something like that. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Beancount" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/a13fa83c-f430-4d37-bd70-b946cd2708aa%40googlegroups.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Beancount" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/CAK21%2BhNBzzj81ceNT8Ya3ij78TJko7x3HC65p418NtPAwXE6%2BQ%40mail.gmail.com.
