Il 17/04/21 19:47, John Ralls ha scritto:
But if you sold only 50 shares Trading:XYZ would have a balance of -50 and Trading:EUR has a balance of €400. To find the capital gain you have to compute the basis of the remaining 50 shares and subtract it from the Trading:EUR balance.
Yes, that's why I said "for closing 2020": I understood it was a special case and I actually wrote to my future self a memo explaining why the year-end closing is the way it is.
For 2021, especially if a sale occurs, I'll try to record it properly.
So rather than getting you in trouble with the tax authorities the consequences would be in the time spent on figuring out why your numbers and theirs are different.
Why would that be the case? I have no way to calculate the tax amount from within gnucash, I'm simply going to take what the bank debits and record it.
The one issue I have with the way the bank records costs (not taxes) is that the fixed fee paid on purchase of a fund is lumped together with the investment amount, so they have a slightly different share price from mine.
I chose to record the expense the moment it is incurred, that is at purchase time.
I might as well follow their lead, if else to make my life easier still, but this should be just a matter of preference, right?
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