Hi Alex,
Can you describe in more detail how you'd like this to look like?
Here's what I think you're saying (please correct me if I'm wrong):
For this kind of input:
2014-05-11 open Liabilities:CreditCard BRL
2014-05-11 open Expenses:CoolStuff BRL,USD
2014-05-11 open Expenses:ForeignTax BRL
2014-05-11 * "Compra local"
Liabilities:CreditCard -102.39 BRL
Expenses:CoolStuff
2014-05-11 * "Compra global"
Liabilities:CreditCard -82.30 BRL @ 0.45 USD
Expenses:CoolStuff
You would like the transactions to get parsed into this:
2014-05-11 * "Compra local"
Liabilities:CreditCard -82.30 BRL @ 0.45 USD
Expenses:CoolStuff 37.0350 USD
2014-05-11 * "Compra global"
Liabilities:CreditCard -82.30 BRL @ 0.45 USD
Expenses:CoolStuff 34.6721670 USD
Expenses:ForeignTax 5.25074 BRL @ 0.45 USD
For the local transaction, the automatically filled-in amount is as
usual, just the converted amount.
For the global transaction, instead of just converting the amount,
take 6.38% of it and automatically insert a new posting to book
that against the foreign tax amount, and fill in the auto-posting
with the remainder.
Would that work?
An idea I've been toying with at some point is to allow the user to
specify more than a single posting without an amount, like this:
2014-05-11 * "Compra global"
Liabilities:CreditCard -82.30 BRL @ 0.45 USD
Expenses:CoolStuff
Expenses:ForeignTax 6.38%
where all the percentages of those postings would still have to sum
up to 100%, and one of them could be left without a percentage, as
above (the Expenses:CoolStuff posting is automatically set to
93.62%). The amounts automatically booked would be in proportion to
their percentage. This is the second time I hear of a use case for
this.
However, your use case seems to warrant a more automatic usage. If
the tax is stable (e.g. it only changes every year, for instance),
you would still want to code this into the system.
I think Ledger has some way to automatically book a virtual amount
on a pattern; that might be enough if the tax never changes.
On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 5:19 PM, Alexandre Rademaker
<[email protected]>wrote:
>
> Sorry for this probably silly question but I didn't find any info in the
> docs.
>
> I need to add an automatic post about the tax that I pay each time that I
> use my credit card for international purchases. If I buy in Brazilian
> Reais, no tax, but if I buy something in dollars or euros, I have to pay
> 6.38% of tax. I could register one transaction per statement (summing up
> the total amount of tax that I payed for all international purchases in
> that statement) or I could register the tax amount per entry (purchase). I
> prefer the second one. Any idea?
>
> Automatic transaction is the only way to go? Can I have on post relative
> to the amount of the transaction? Can automatic transaction be fired only
> when specific currency was used in a specific account?
>
> Best,
> Alexandre
>
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