Can't get you to two, but can reduce it to four.   Combine the Fed and
State transactions for each quarter.  Keep all the splits but fire them as
a single scheduled transaction for that quarter.

Not what you wanted but half the transactions to update.

On Mon, Jun 1, 2026, 22:49 Tom Route36 <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Liz,
>
> I know what you're saying as far as GnuCash handling things "under the
> hood" once the transactions are setup.  The reason it's a bit annoying
> (at least once a year) is that I usually need to adjust the estimated
> payments each year.  So it would be easier to only have to adjust 2
> scheduled transactions, rather than having to edit and update 8 of them
> individually every year.
>
> As I said, it's really minor.  But if anyone had come up with an easy
> way to handle these kinds of irregular schedules it would be useful to
> know about it.  Editing 2 each year is better than editing 8.  (Hey,
> I'll admit I'm lazy.)
>
> Tom
>
>
> On 06/01/2026 10:00 PM, Liz wrote:
> > On Mon, 1 Jun 2026 20:51:01 -0600
> > Tom Route36<[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >> I know this isn't a big issue.  But I'm just wondering if it's
> >> possible to combine those 8 scheduled transactions into just 2.  Any
> >> advice would be appreciated.
> > I don't know of any way to do that.
> > I would also note that once they are all scheduled it doesn't really
> > matter how they appear in the editor for scheduled transactions, as
> > Gnucash handles the rest under the hood.
> >
> > I have had 12 monthly tax payments listed, 4 occurring regularly at
> > quarterly intervals with one set of splits, and the other 8 on the
> > fill in months with a second set of splits.
> >
> > I made separate entries for the second group as the only way I found to
> > manage this in Gnucash.
> > It was then of no concern until I needed to cancel eight separate
> > entries.
> >
> > Liz
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