On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 12:48 AM, Martin Blais <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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
>
>
Sorry, this bit should read:
2014-05-11 * "Compra local"
Liabilities:CreditCard -82.30 BRL
Expenses:CoolStuff 82.30 BRL
> 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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