This would solve the problem, except my bank doesn't provide these accounts...
Thanks! On Thu, Jul 23, 2015, at 21:45, Leonardo Melo wrote: > Not sure it will help in any effective way. But I do the same with my > accounts and use my internet banking to match my postings. What I do > for that scenario is to transfer the owed money to one of my saving > accounts (my bank lets me have "as many as I want"). So that way the > money is stored away from my checking account, and it stills traceable > using Ledger and my internet banking. > > Hope this helps =D > > On Thursday, 23 July 2015 19:20:49 UTC+1, Simão Mata wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I am learning how to use ledger and I have a question. >> >> One think I really like is that I can check that everything is right >> by checking the current balance of my Assets:Checkings entry, if it's >> the exact same as my online banking app says then I can trust I am >> keeping the journal properly. >> >> I receive my salary from my clients and I need to pay taxes to the >> goverment at the end of the year, so for each client I need to deduct >> taxes and keep this value somewhere until the end of the year. I >> would like to track this value using Ledger also. >> >> My first thought was to write a transaction from Assets:Checkings, >> where I get my salary, to Liabilities:OwedTax but then >> Assets:Checkings no longer matches the exact value I have on my >> online banking. This is correct, actually. since I cannot use that >> money and is not mine, I owe it to the government, but makes it >> difficult to track how much money I actually have. >> >> Is there any way to keep track of this owed tax and how much money I >> can use (checkings - tax) and at the same time have a balance entry >> for the exact amount my online banking app shows? >> >> I thought about using these virtual accounts but I am not sure if >> it's the way to go. >> >> Thank you for your help. >> -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ledger" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
