Thanks everyone, this is really helpful.
On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 2:16 AM, Martin Michlmayr <[email protected]> wrote: > * Matt Seburn <[email protected]> [2012-02-02 17:59]: >> Has anyone found it useful to use Ledger to track deductions on >> their income, like income tax, pension contributions, etc? Or do >> most people simply enter their net income? > > Like Jim Robinson, I track all deductions because this is useful > information and the proper way to account for things. However, I > agree that it makes it less obvious what your net income in. If I > want to know my net income, I can do something like this though: > > bal income:employment:salary expenses:tax:income expenses:tax:ni > >> I can see it being useful, but then the net income becomes less >> apparent, and perhaps budgeting would get more complicated as a >> result. > > I actually have a proposed feature for ledger in mind that would make > this easier. I hope I can find some time soon to describe the feature > request. > > -- > Martin Michlmayr > http://www.cyrius.com/
