Whether a gain is taxable or not is a separate issue from whether a sale results in gain, and the usual way (AFAIK) of handling taxed versus untaxed anything is to have separate accounts for each (Income:Realized Gains:Taxable and Income:Realized Gains:Untaxed).
Does creating a transaction that credits your brokerage account in the amount of the fee and directs it to Expenses:Investing:Brokerage Fees not result in what you seek? David > On Sep 11, 2018, at 12:21 PM, <hal....@tutanota.com> <hal....@tutanota.com> > wrote: > > > Right,and I can agree with this. It is just a bit confusing because that'sa > “realized gain” not subject to taxation (AFAIK), wheras if the moneyended up > on my account instead, then it would be. > But taxationis not my concern for now, and I can live with that. What I > reallyneed to figure out is how to add this to the brokerage fees. > > 11. Sep 2018 15:40 by sunfis...@yahoo.com <mailto:sunfis...@yahoo.com>: > > >> While I have no comment on how to get the Advanced Portfolio Report to >> categorize your fees as such, I will note that when you sell a >> commodity—regardless of the reason for which you sell it—you will have (in >> most cases) a capital gain element. The gain is there, even if you >> immediately turn the proceeds over to another entity. So, it seems to me you >> should enter a sell transaction, complete with gains information, and then >> enter a transfer to brokerage fees as a separate transaction. I don’t know >> how the report handles this. >> >> David T. >> >>> On Sep 11, 2018, at 8:30 AM, <>> hal....@tutanota.com >>> <mailto:hal....@tutanota.com>>> > <>> hal....@tutanota.com >>> <mailto:hal....@tutanota.com>>> > wrote: >>> >>> Hello, >>> I have a mutual fund account for which the management fees are paid for in >>> shares. That is to say, every years, some of my shares are used to pay for >>> the fees and my total amount of shares is therefore slightly reduced. >>> I am trying to setup my accounts/transactions in such a way that early >>> management fees for the mutual fund will appear in the report as brokerage >>> fees, but so far I haven't been able to figure out the trick to do so. >>> First, is this even possible? >>> If I simply express this by a normal 'sell' operation, where the money goes >>> to an expense account, the report shows some 'realized gain' and no >>> increase for the 'brokerage fees'. I would like the opposite: the money out >>> should be added to the 'brokerage fees' (it goes to an expense account >>> after all), and I shouldn't see any 'realized gain'. The total return and >>> return rate should of course also be updated accordingly. >>> I am using Gnucash 2.6.16 >>> Thanks! >>> _______________________________________________ >>> gnucash-user mailing list >>> gnucash-user@gnucash.org <mailto:gnucash-user@gnucash.org> >>> To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: >>> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user >>> <https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user> >>> If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see >> >>> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists >>> <https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists>>> for more information. >>> ----- >>> Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. >>> You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
